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Our Teachers Lied To Us

  • 21-05-2008 12:04pm
    #1
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    "i before e except after c"

    Nonsense! :pac:


    See:


    beige, conscience, deify, feisty,
    foreign, forfeit, freight, heifer, height, heist, neighbor, neither, peignoir, science,
    society, sovereign,weight, weird

    among others

    So what other school "rules" turned out to be myths?
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  • #2
    Sherifu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    ...


    "I before e, except after c" is a mnemonic device used to help many students remember how to spell certain words in the English language. It means that, in words where i and e fall together, the order is ie, except directly following c, when it is ei. For example:
    • ie in words like siege, friend
    • ei in words like ceiling, receive
    However, in its short form the rule has many common exceptions, such as species, science, sufficient (where ie follows c) or seize, weird, sovereignty, vein, feisty, kaleidoscope and neighbor (where ei is not preceded by c). More exceptions are listed below. Various augmentations to the rhyme have been proposed to handle these exceptions.


  • #3
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Sherifu wrote: »
    ...

    +1


  • #4
    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    i before e except after c.......

    isn't there more to it, i can'ta remembera but i don'ta thinka thatsa the enda of that little ryhma


  • #5
    FunkZ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    Sherifu wrote: »
    ...

    !


  • #6
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Heh, very good!

    I had a teacher who warned us you HAVE to bless yourself before and after a prayer - HAVE to... otherwise, I don't know, it might not work or something. It stayed with me. Until I started questioning the existence of god, I would automatically bless myself if in need of something saying a prayer.


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  • #7
    funk-you
    Registered Users Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭funk-you


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    So what other school "rules" turned out to be myths?

    Smoking isn't cool. It clearly is.

    Always say no to drugs. Ha!

    -Funk


  • #8
    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    Dudess wrote: »
    Heh, very good!

    I had a teacher who warned us you HAVE to bless yourself before and after a prayer - HAVE to... otherwise, I don't know, it might not work or something. It stayed with me. Until I started questioning the existence of god, I would automatically bless myself if in need of something saying a prayer.


    Yeah our teacher used to say you needed to dial into God by blessing yourself, and then at the end, don't forget to put the phone down.


  • #9
    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    Sherifu wrote: »
    Various augmentations to the rhyme have been proposed to handle these exceptions.

    Exactly, so how does it continue.....?


  • #10
    hairymolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭hairymolly


    MikeySligo wrote: »
    Yeah our teacher used to say you needed to dial into God by blessing yourself, and then at the end, don't forget to put the phone down.
    :D:D did the teacher say anything about texting?


  • #11
    Eoin
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 21,238 CMod ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    MikeySligo wrote: »
    i before e except after c.......

    isn't there more to it, i can'ta remembera but i don'ta thinka thatsa the enda of that little ryhma
    I remember it as "i before e, except after c, so long as the sound is e"


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  • #12
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    M I double S M I double S IPPI
    Londonderry

    Surely someone else this, you kind of rhyme it to learn to spell Mississippi.

    Still don’t know why teach Irish kids who are well away from Northern Ireland to use Londonderry. Grew up thinking that was the name.


  • #13
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    MikeySligo wrote: »
    Yeah our teacher used to say you needed to dial into God by blessing yourself, and then at the end, don't forget to put the phone down.
    Hmmm... Good point. I suppose blessing oneself is the equivalent of paging/texting/phoning God. I mean he's a busy guy. He can't just know some random person in Ireland has started praying to him at that moment... On second thoughts though, wouldn't he just know since he's all powerful and all knowing?


  • #14
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Moi teechers wer ful a shoite, didnit lern nuffin I did


  • #15
    kmart6
    Registered Users Posts: 15,172 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    KTRIC wrote: »
    Moi teechers wer ful a shoite, didnit lern nuffin I did
    It show's...lol


  • #16
    Dennis the Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    Our ignoramus of a religious teacher was teaching us about how bad drugs were and listed Freddie Mercury as a victim of drugs. I raised the point that he was gay and died of AIDS but she told me to shut up, refused to acknowledge that it had anything to do with it. "No. it was heroin."
    Stupid bint.


  • #17
    FunkyChicken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭FunkyChicken


    micmclo wrote: »
    M I double S M I double S IPPI
    Londonderry

    Surely someone else this, you kind of rhyme it to learn to spell Mississippi.

    Still don’t know why teach Irish kids who are well away from Northern Ireland to use Londonderry. Grew up thinking that was the name.
    i've no idea what you're talking about :(


    M I double S M I double S IPPI = missmissippi btw


  • #18
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Tago Mago wrote: »
    Our ignoramus of a religious teacher was teaching us about how bad drugs were and listed Freddie Mercury as a victim of drugs. I raised the point that he was gay and died of AIDS but she told me to shut up, refused to acknowledge that it had anything to do with it. "No. it was heroin."
    Stupid bint.
    LOL What an asshole.


  • #19
    mental07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭mental07


    kmart6 wrote: »
    It show's...lol
    Oh, the irony..... :p


  • #20
    Rob_l
    Registered Users Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭Rob_l


    micmclo wrote: »

    Still don’t know why teach Irish kids who are well away from Northern Ireland to use Londonderry. Grew up thinking that was the name.

    Are you talking about derry?
    I dont know a londonderry


  • #21
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 14,715 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    MikeySligo wrote: »
    Exactly, so how does it continue.....?

    "i" before "e", except after "c",
    Unless you seize the weird sovereignty
    Of your neighbour's feisty kaleidoscope,
    According to the pope.
    MikeySligo wrote: »
    Yeah our teacher used to say you needed to dial into God by blessing yourself, and then at the end, don't forget to put the phone down.

    That's how I remember remembering it as well. Sometimes I couldn't remember whether I'd dialled in or out last time and would be like "Oh no, I've been blabbing on about girl's knickers for the last hour and he hasn't said anything".

    "Earthhorse?"
    "Yes God".
    "Are you still there?"
    "Yes God".
    "Hang up".
    "No, you hang up".
    "No, you hang up".


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  • #22
    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    mental07 wrote: »
    Oh, the irony..... :p

    LOL
    That what happens....


  • #23
    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    "Are you still there?"
    "Yes God".
    "Hang up".
    "No, you hang up".
    "No, you hang up".


    :D:D:D:D


  • #24
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    FunkyChicken wrote: »
    M I double S M I double S IPPI = missmissippi btw

    Oops, you're correct, M I double S I double S IPPI is what I meant!
    It was a rhyme to learn Mississippi and then they added Londonderry at the end

    Can’t believe I’m the only one to hear of this :(


  • #25
    Tha Gopher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Tha Gopher


    Tago Mago wrote: »
    Our ignoramus of a religious teacher was teaching us about how bad drugs were and listed Freddie Mercury as a victim of drugs. I raised the point that he was gay and died of AIDS but she told me to shut up, refused to acknowledge that it had anything to do with it. "No. it was heroin."
    Stupid bint.

    Meh. Either way it was bad Aids as opposed to good Aids.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFNs2mOkKzc


  • #26
    c0rk3r
    Registered Users Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭c0rk3r


    I was told there was 8 electrons in a shell. That these electrons orbited the nucleus in a circle. This turned out to be a deceitful lie. The first of many


  • #27
    passive
    Registered Users Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭passive


    Rob_l wrote: »
    Are you talking about derry?
    I dont know a londonderry

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=londonderry,+Ireland&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=29.854268,80.859375&ie=UTF8&ll=55.028809,-7.272949&spn=0.168444,0.631714&z=11&iwloc=addr
    ;)


  • #28
    Blisterman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,450 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    That people thought the earth was flat until Christopher Columbus sailed to America.

    People knew well before it, as if you head north 100 miles, east 100 miles then south 100 miles, then it's more than 100 miles west to where you started.


  • #29
    EamonnKeane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 950 ✭✭✭EamonnKeane


    I have yet to encounter an oxbow lake in the real world. I think that one was a windup.


  • #30
    FruitLover
    Registered Users Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    Tago Mago wrote: »
    "No. it was heroin."

    It was gay heroin, so you're both right.


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  • #31
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    teacher myth

    'If you cheat in an exam, you're only fooling yourself'

    well, if you don't get caught you're also fooling your teacher,
    and if it's a state exam, the person correcting your paper.


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