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ccharles000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 09:43 PM Original message |
British government spells end of 'i before e' rule |
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knowbody0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. how bout Colonel? |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
2. English sucks. nt |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
3. 'i before e, except after c, WHEN THE SOUND IS LONG E!' |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 09:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Screw that, blame it on your spell checker. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 11:29 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. "'I' before 'E', except after 'C', or when sounded like 'A,' as in 'neighbor' & 'weigh'". |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 02:10 AM Response to Reply #16 |
23. EXACTLY! Works every time. Of course, |
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Frank Cannon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 07:35 AM Response to Reply #23 |
29. Surely there must be some weird exception to this rule. n/t |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 08:59 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. sufficient and recieve both would be exceptions |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 09:32 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. heifer |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 01:14 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. it's "receive". see, if you'd used the rule...:>) |
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Jazzgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 02:11 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. How about "weird"? |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 03:03 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Yes, I think that was the point of Frank's post. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 05:35 AM Response to Reply #16 |
26. Same here n/t |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 11:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
43. Weird. |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 10:02 PM Response to Original message |
5. Great. They want their children to be just as ignorant as Americans. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 10:04 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Because the time it takes to incite learning isn't cost-effective. |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 10:14 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Yeah, who needs learning when you're destined for corporate serfhood anyway. (nt) |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
6. Let's weigh a sleigh of fiends, friends, and neighbors. |
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beac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 12:21 AM Response to Reply #6 |
21. What you do at your holiday parties is your own business, but keep it to yourself , weirdo. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
8. You don't have to be Einstein to know that... |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
9. Fine, right after they fix Worcestershire. |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 02:12 AM Response to Reply #9 |
24. I LOVE Worcestershire! Enhances a steak's flavor instead of |
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NV Whino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
10. Nooooooo! |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
11. A horrible language to spell |
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Midwestern Democrat (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 07:23 AM Response to Reply #11 |
27. I had a professor from Germany who once remarked that in Germany |
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ccharles000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
13. kick |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
14. Oh, bullshit. It's a great rule. Learn the exceptions, and buck up! nt |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
15. or when sounding like "a" as in neighbor and sleigh |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
17. "No, Brian. It's i before e except after c and when sounding like a as in neighbor and weigh, |
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TCJ70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 11:52 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. That's a hard rule... |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 12:07 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. LOL |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
18. I always thought it meant something else. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
22. English has got to have the most fucked up orthography on the planet |
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Number23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 04:33 AM Response to Original message |
25. I'll care when they pronounce the word "schedule" the way the Good Lord intended |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 07:25 AM Response to Original message |
28. Thier decieved |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 07:43 AM Response to Original message |
30. 'neighbour' has been misspelled 7 times in this thread |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 02:12 PM Response to Reply #30 |
38. And there's no defence for their doing that! |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
31. One fucking rule I can remember and agree to obey, and now they want to shitcan it? |
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Fozzledick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
35. It's a weird science! |
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ccharles000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 05:34 PM Response to Reply #35 |
41. I agree |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
36. What I've noticed about Brits is that they tend to be either |
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hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
40. I like George Carlin's solution |
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Marsala (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-21-09 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
42. Bah, the British don't even know how to spell "color" n/t |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-22-09 02:48 AM Response to Original message |
44. I just want them to take the "ugh" out of English: though, through, cough ... |
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6000eliot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-22-09 02:55 AM Response to Original message |
45. The problem with all of these "rules" is that when English spelling was regularized, |
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yorgatron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-22-09 03:20 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. DUPE! |
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