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achiro
5/23/2006, 02:32 PM
Seems to not work about as often as it does.
OUstudent4life
5/23/2006, 02:36 PM
and sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh
yermom
5/23/2006, 02:51 PM
Einstein was a smart guy, and he has it wrong in his name twice
OUinFLA
5/23/2006, 03:03 PM
it's all about science anyway.
AllAboutThe'O'
5/23/2006, 04:04 PM
Seems to not work about as often as it does.
Anyone ever watch the movie "A Boy Named Charlie Brown?" There was a song called "I before E except after C" when Charlie Brown was studying for the big spelling bee.
royalfan5
5/23/2006, 04:49 PM
It works in my last name, and it still gets misspelled more often than not.
ChickSoonerFan
5/23/2006, 05:16 PM
Weird


:D
AllAboutThe'O'
5/23/2006, 06:14 PM
It works in my last name, and it still gets misspelled more often than not.

Another example:

MARK TEIXEIRA
Okla-homey
5/23/2006, 07:54 PM
That stoopid rule for the spelling challenged has ensured us guys named Keith have our name mispelled more often than not.
proud gonzo
5/23/2006, 08:05 PM
Einstein was a smart guy, and he has it wrong in his name twice
i don't think that rule applies to GERMAN.
royalfan5
5/23/2006, 09:20 PM
i don't think that rule applies to GERMAN.
It applies to my German surname.
Stoop Dawg
5/24/2006, 12:42 AM
In school, you heard: Write i before e except after c or when it sounds like an a as in neighbor and weigh. Exceptions include: beige, codeine, conscience, counterfeit, deify, deity, eight, either, feign, feint, foreign, forfeit, heifer, height, heir, heist, leisure, neither, rein, science, seize, society, sovereign, species, sufficient, surfeit, weight, weiner, weird. (And the list goes on!) Why? The rule only applies to digraphs, so words like deity and science do not count. The rule only applies to digraphs that have the /i:/ (ee) pronunciation, as in "piece." The rule does not apply to words that are recent imports from foreign languages, such as gneiss, dreidel, and enceinte. As far as weiner/wiener, "wiener" is the original spelling (c. 1889, from wiener schnitzel) and weiner is an (erroneous) spelling variant (c. 1961), mainly used in North America.

http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/s39.html
OCUDad
5/24/2006, 01:01 AM
If they already allow for neighbor and weigh, why are beige, eight, feign, feint, reign, and weight listed as exceptions?