Date:  Fri, 1 Dec 1995 14:17:07 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: I before E



err, ahh, 'seige' WOULD be an exception, IF we spelled it that way...

          Larry

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The way I learned it was, "i" before "e" except after "c", or when sounds

like /ey/, as in "neighbor" and "neigh." "Either", "neither", "weird",

"leisure", and "seige" are 5 exceptions, if you please.



Ellen S. Polsky (Ellen.Polsky[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]Colorado.EDU)