[etni] Re: "i before e.... "
- From: "Patricia Reifen" <patriciareifen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: sarag@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:53:33 +0000
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Hi everyone,
Sara asked for the poem. I found the following in a google search.
"Use i before e except after c or when sounded like a as in neighbor or
weigh; and except seize and seizure and also leisure, weird, height, and
either, forfeit, and neither."
Enjoy life,
Patricia
>When I was taught to spell we learned to recite
>"I before E
>except after C
>or when sounded like A
>as in neighbor or weigh.
>Exceptions are ......"
>And here my memory gives out! I remember there were 5 or 6 exceptions. Does
>anyone know how to continue this recitation? OR does any good English
>teacher know what the exceptions are?
>(I taught this to my NS 11th grade and also the regular 5 point 11th grade
>and they loved it.)
> thanks -
> sara g
>sara g in israel
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