Our Teachers Lied To Us

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?

Sherifu

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"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.

Genghiz Cohen

Sherifu wrote: »

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+1

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

FunkZ

Sherifu wrote: »

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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.

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

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.

Radharc na Sleibhte

Sherifu wrote: »

Various augmentations to the rhyme have been proposed to handle these exceptions.

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

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 did the teacher say anything about texting?

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"

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.

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?

KTRIC

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

kmart6

KTRIC wrote: »

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

It show's...lol

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.

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

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.

mental07

kmart6 wrote: »

It show's...lol

Oh, the irony.....

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

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".

Radharc na Sleibhte

mental07 wrote: »

Oh, the irony.....

LOL
That what happens....

Radharc na Sleibhte

Earthhorse wrote: »

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

:D:D:D

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

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

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

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

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.

EamonnKeane

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

FruitLover

Tago Mago wrote: »

"No. it was heroin."

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

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.

Canis Lupus

That I'd never amount to anything.

Hold on..........

WindSock

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.

Heh. instead of doing the blessing bit, you can replace it by
1 -8 -0- 0- GOD

WindSock

lol, one of my teachers once thought it was Tuesday, when I knew it was in fact, Wednesday. How dumb is that? From then on I didn't bother trying to learn from her as I lost all respect.

MOH

micmclo wrote: »

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

Never heard the Londonderry bit. In related news:

A bus stops and two Italian men get on. They seat themselves and engage
in animated conversation. The lady sitting behind them ignores their
conversation at first, but her attention is galvanized when she hears
one of the men say the following;

"Emma come first. Den I come. Two asses, dey come together. I come
again. Two asses, dey come together again. I come again and pee twice.
Den I come once-a-more."

"You foul-mouthed swine" retorted the lady indignantly. "In this country
we don't talk about our sex lives in public!"

"Hey, coola down lady" said the man. "Imma just tellun my friend howa to
spella Mississippi."

Karl Hungus

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.

Pfft, that's nothing. I had a teacher who tried to convince us that Japan was a third world country. :pac:

Lockstep

That a monster lived in the farmers field behind the school.

Adam

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Pfft, that's nothing. I had a teacher who tried to convince us that Japan was a third world country. :pac:

I bet you nearly had a stroke! :pac:

Lockstep

I had a French teacher who told me Ireland was a third world country.

And another who swore Charless II was a devout protestant.

Fool.


bEst goes to Neo-Nazi teacher in my dads school:
His leaving cert question to the kids:

"Explain how Saddam Hussein was a CiA agent"

CrazyNoob

They lied about me going blind and getting hairy palms :D

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

"It's nice that you can draw, really, but that's not really what you want to do with your life, is it?"

"It's more important for you to stick with the Irish as you're poor at it, than to learn a foreign language."

"The Inter Cert is the most important thing you will ever do."

Ruskie4Rent

Well having science class straight after religion meant someone was lying to us.

Sully

Dudess wrote: »

Until I started questioning the existence of god

Did you get an answer?

stevenmu

The I before E rule is nothing but deceit.






Also, had a teacher that insisted that it was the earths spin that held us all to the ground and that if the earth ever stopped spinning we would all fall off, despite me putting some bottle caps and other bits on a circle of plastic and spinning it around to show her what happened.

Stinger-bar

They lied about the Junior and Leaving cert being of any relevance to anyone.

IvaBigWun

EamonnKeane wrote: »

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

lol

IvaBigWun

Earthhorse wrote: »

"i" before "e", except after "c",
Unless you seize the weird sovereignty
Of your neighbour's feisty kaleidoscope,
According to the pope.

Never heard that one. It makes up for the other one which is pure lies :pac:

kowloon

That America won ww2 in Normandy. I believe that myth is still taught.

ergonomics

I had an English teacher who swore blind that the word Atlantic was spelt Athlantic.

StonedParadoX

if i could remember anything from school i'd be happy

Senna

'everything you learn has so many applications in the real world':rolleyes: