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Weird!
Feb 19, 2018 12:18 AM
eajohansson
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Weird!
ixPlayDeadxi
Gotta say, the saying is only for the ee around and not the ay sound, and the quote goes on to say except after c. Reread it knowing that!
ScubaSteve544
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
STGxDante
Weird was actually corrected to wierd in the Webster's dictionary. Either way seems fine tbh. Professor's don't seem to give 2 shits.
Greeneyedfox
Except when sounding like "A" as in neighbor or weigh
GasBandit
It only applies to long "E" phonemes, you pedantic twats.
eratosthenesearth
Bogus. Remove neighbor, eight, beige, sleigh, weightlifter & receive. Foreign words (like foreign) of course don't follow the rule.
KingWeeners
DungeonMaster69
Hieght
NewmarketMTB
I'm laughing aloud on the toilet hoping nobody hears me
oforgodssake
O
bryancKing
Jim Nabors is way cool.
MomofEmma
The whole thing is "i" before "e" except after "c" and in words that go "ay" like in "neighbor" and "weigh"
FH2actual
I need this coffee mug
dangerousDoc
I before E except after C We live in a weird society
kuatolives
lol @ English
HaroldLoveggs
This is the kind of bull shit language rules that made me want to be a math major.
wadenelson1
Accept After Sea.
CriticalMass90
Science, beitch!
MarSciTech
Except after C and in sounding like "a" as in neighbor and weigh.
HaveYouSeenMyKitties
Try teaching that to 1st graders.
DontReadMyBio
I before E you say?
MainlyHereForTheSpellingAndPuns
Favorited.
Solid5outof7
I am mad
tombombadilf
I before e except after c and e before n in chicken.
rusrsdude
Hate it when people type wierd instead of weird even after being corrected. (Idc for strangers tho.)
ScubaSteve544
Weird*
rusrsdude
I.. I mean, i guess..
ScubaSteve544
Ha ha
DavidNightingale
Is it printed upside down on a coffee cup?
ShabaDababa
QI did a bit on this as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duqlZXiIZqA
mdzmdz
Ceiling
RadioactiveLobster
You cannot be that stupid.
RadioactiveLobster
Context for those who don't get it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duqlZXiIZqA
NautiGal
English doesn't so much borrow from other languages as follow them down dark alleys and go through their pockets for loose grammar.
pogidaga
"... English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. -- James Nicoll
malikcarr
Was that an Eddie Izzard bit? I've heard that in a comedy routine before...
NautiGal
Dunno where I picked it up. Been using it for years. The other one I like is "English is the result of French soldiers trying to date 1/2
NautiGal
2/2 German barmaid, and is no more legitimate than any of the other results thereof."
2ti6x
isnt this a thing where the "rule" is actually the exception?
heydon666
Literally yes. QI did a thing about it. There are more exceptions in the dictionary.
NautiGal
Basically anything we got from German breaks the "I before E" rule, whereas anything we got from the various Romance Languages follows it.
Vysh2
English is a pidgin language where the idea of a concrete rule set is pointless. You have to know words on a symbolic basis.
Mixedrace
Yes
dan144
Yeis
RulesOfImgur
Rules are more like guidelines anyway
IAmGodot
https://twitter.com/UberFacts/status/485804692292009985
Thor73
https://youtu.be/duqlZXiIZqA definitely relevant.
Tunisia
It may be that it's the exception in terms of number of words, but when you weight by frequency of usage, it works.
QuantumSp3ctral
No it’s the opposite
Tunisia
*wieght
Corrodias
The full saying that I have heard was "I before E, except after C, or when sounding as 'a', as in 'neighbor' or 'weigh'". This accounts »
MattShnoop
Doesn’t work for weird, though
Corrodias
for *most* of the words here, except for Keith (which is a name), feisty (which is odd, considering how "fie" is spelled), and caffeinated.
manhands
It makes me happy that feisty is feisty to spell.
MajorTom0101
Rules were made to be broken: gramerians probably.
Raithul
And weird.
InsaneDeman
Seize the weird one.
itsbrittaneybitch
Ew I never realized caffeinated was spelled like that
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nebbo77
...and on weekdays and holidays and all throughout May, AND YOU'LL ALWAYS BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY
MartianWeasel
Imbecilullen!!!
Valgov291
that's a hard rule. That's a rough rule right there.
nebbo77
*weekends
CilantroGirl
Boxen!
ThisOneKid
Moosen!
minc3r
I before e, except after c, and when sounding like 'a' as in neighbor and weigh! And on weekends, and holidays, and all throughout May! 1/2
CriticalMass90
Science.
minc3r
And you'll always be wrong nO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!
ziecatch
That's a... that's a tough rule. Brian, how do you make a word a plural?
TheCasualMovieGoer
Uuhhhh....you put a s. You put a s at the end of it...?
ziecatch
When?
TheCasualMovieGoer
Uuhhh...on WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS!