alt Hacker Newsi before e except after c
or when sounded as 'a' as in neighbor or weigh
or just because fuck you, it's English
https://www.espressoenglish.net/i-before-e-except-after-c-ru...
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cj • today at 3:42 PM
At least we don’t gender our nouns!
Learning German, I could not memorize correct usage of der/die/das for the life of me
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gnatman • today at 4:37 PM
my third grade teacher taught us:
>i before e except after c
>or when sounded as 'a' as in neighbor or weigh
>or when it’s WEIRD
pessimizer • today at 4:39 PM
"I before E except after C, unless it’s my feisty neighbor Keith who lifts weights. Weird.”
https://languagemagazine.com/2023/01/03/can-teaching-english...
There's a movie "Weird Science" which i always appreciated if only for breaking the rule twice in two words.