> I have to defer, Walt, to your way more better appreciation of what it takes
> to be pure, original, and American - nobody does it better :-))
>
> And your self-correction of that weird word is noted - I confess I wasn't
> 100% sure myself. "I before E except after C" continues into a second verse
> "but do not forget, please, the little word SEIZE" - I will leave you to
> conjure up the rest.
I'm not sure if I'm talking through my hat here, but isn't the "I before E"
rule about the spelling of words where the "ie" stands for an "ee" sound (as in
"Eeek!")? In "weird", the E comes before the I because they represent a
diphthong.
Jonas
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