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Cliff Rogers
26th May 2004, 12:44 AM
Jim (reformed Spelling Nazi - now Spelling Helper) Said....

This week's spelling hint.
i before e except after c
eg 1. believe
2. receive
or when sounded as ay as in neighbour or weigh
.....

I want to know what happened to their? ;)

jshaw
26th May 2004, 10:57 AM
Ahhh, but Cliff, it IS pronounced "thayur"! At least, it is by us Scots :)

On a similar vein, we also have 3 different pronounciations for "law", "lore" and "lower" which the guys I used to work with in England couldn't even say, never mind spell.

Cheers,
John

silentC
26th May 2004, 11:05 AM
What about weird?

jshaw
26th May 2004, 11:11 AM
"Weird"? Maybe some monk in the 13th century copied it down wrong...
I don't know, some folk are so picky.

John ;)

Driver
26th May 2004, 11:42 AM
"Weird"? Maybe some monk in the 13th century copied it down wrong...
John ;)

You mean like when he wrote celibate instead of celebrate?

Grunt
26th May 2004, 01:09 PM
I've always thought that the science of spelling was kind of weird.

journeyman Mick
26th May 2004, 11:42 PM
I've always thought that the science of spelling was kind of weird.
Grunt, think of it as less of a science and more of a random lottery and it will make much more sense!

Mick