I before E except after C

knifey_spoonie · 07-06-2005 6:26pm #1

You will all pass now

D-Generate · 07-06-2005 6:27pm

Wait, wait! What about weird?

astec123 · 07-06-2005 6:28pm

I before E except after C unless it sounds like EE.

Fobia · 07-06-2005 6:35pm

Science doesn't sound like "EE" nor does ancient.

Victor · 07-06-2005 6:40pm

or protein

D-Generate · 07-06-2005 6:42pm

Or Their

Fobia · 07-06-2005 6:49pm

Victor wrote:

or protein

I always thought protein was pronounced pro-teen, but perhaps it's just my accent or something

Victor · 07-06-2005 7:08pm

I'm ignoring the sounds like "ee" bit.

PurpleFistMixer · 07-06-2005 7:09pm

Also foreign.

Fobia · 07-06-2005 7:21pm

There are so many exceptions to this rule I think it's almost worth not remembering at all

All ready for English tommorrow, I've done no preparation for paper 1 but I don't think you can really, other than read the newspaper or whatever (what skool.ie advises), but I do that anyway....and for paper 2 I know the novel and drama pretty well and think I'm covered for poems....that time limit is a bitch though!

Let's just hope it's an easy one

, good luck to all (though really I should be hoping ye all fail, what with only so many A's available etc),

My last post here (the junior cert board, I'll still post elsewhere!) till the 16th.

philologos · 07-06-2005 7:24pm

lol why??

PurpleFistMixer · 07-06-2005 7:26pm

Limited number of As WHAT?!
And why aren't you posting here? Is it that you hate us?

*goes to cry in corner, finishes rereading To Kill a Mockingbird*

I before E except after C

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