stick with the 'I before E except after C' rule or drop it, O.K. Freinds?

[mopaul]

like the word 'friends', the 'I' is first, and there's no C at all.

stuff like this drives the spell checker BATSHIT crazy.

[liberal N proud]

1. English, such a wonderful language!

[nyhuskyfan]

2. And when pronounced as 'ay'

as in neighbor and weigh.

English was not a well thought out language. Not enough rules, too many exceptions.

rough, cough, bough, dough -- none of them rhyme.

[sui generis]

4. bough and dough don't rhyme?

Avast ye lubber, prepare to be flamed!!!!!!

heh heh heh. I "don't got" nothing else.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. the tough coughs through as he ploughs the dough

[sui generis]

19. though bough and dough do rhyme

owe, I sea.

I was razed to spell colour and neighbour differently than yew.

:evilgrin:

and pronounce either and either and neither and neither for different wheys.

[nyhuskyfan]

17. Nope

bough rhymes with cow -- "when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall"
dough rhymes with low

[sui generis]

20. neeeether and n-aye-ther

I believe there are multiple accepted pronuncificationisms.

[mopaul]

25. and 'trough' should be 'TROF'

[TlalocW]

3. Huh?

I before E except after C?
What a strange SoCIEty.

TlalocW

[mopaul]

7. why is 'machine' pronounced 'sh'

but mechanic is prounounced with a 'k' sound?

how did our culture sink to this awful level folks?

[mopaul]

8. let's drop C altogether, we already have a K and S

i'll accept a CH as a letter if it would help.

[TlalocW]

29. I saw your advert in the bolor supplement

Pardon?
The bolor supplement.
The color supplement?
Yes, that's right. I'm unable to say the letter b.
C?
Yes, that's right. It's all due to a trauma I suffered as a spoolboy. I was attacked by a bat.
A cat?
No, a bat.
Well, can you say the ltter K?
Oh, yes! Khaki, king, kettle, Kuwait...
Why don't you say the letter K instead of the letter C?
What do you mean? Spell bolor with a K?
Yes.
Kolor.
Yes.
Oh, that's very good. I never thought of that. What a silly bunt.

TlalocW

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. but "friends" follows the rule

I don't see where your chagrin cometh from.

Though the word "weird", of course, does not follow the rule.

[mopaul]

9. that's REALLY how it's spelled?

i'll take your word for it, as i flunked english comp.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Yes. Deliciously ironic, isn't it, that weird would be spelled so..weirdly

[Misunderestimator]

13. lol.... should have read yours first...

weird...

[Misunderestimator]

10. But, "friends" does follow the rule... I before E...

except after "C"... (and then the neighbor/weigh thing)... therefore, "friends" is not an exception, and follows the standard I before E rule.

Huh?

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Hey, I said that five minutes ago!

:spank:

:hi: misunderestimator!

[Misunderestimator]

15. I know... I never deign to read others' posts before spouting my own...

opinions. :P

[mopaul]

12. and SILENT LETTERS, let's just be done with silent letters.

as in the word 'done', it should be DUN, and 'should' should be 'shood'.. and 'letters' should there really be TWO 'T's?, and couldn't 'really' be 'REELY'?

[redqueen]

16. You know there is a society promoting just these thoguhts.

I think they're nuts... but hey, go for it! ;)

[Karenina]

18. The rule in German

is it's spelled the way it sounds; long 'e' the 'i' comes first, long 'i' the 'e' comes first. Can't think of an exception off the top!
So einfach ist das! :toast: PROSIT!

[sui generis]

21. einfach, except for all the gerund / subjunctive stuff

[Karenina]

28. And dem verdammt

DECLINATIONS! However, the "ie" thing works! :hi:

[Beetwasher]

22. You're Such A Curmudgeon

Or should I say K-U-R-M-U-J-I-N

[mopaul]

23. and what about the word 'their', that's an E before an I and no C!

geezer is the proper term, or geyser. krmujn iz also akseptabul

[Beetwasher]

24. Well, For That Matter, What's Up W/ YOUR Name?

I think you oughta spell it properly, it's M-O-P-A-W-L. :evilgrin:

[mopaul]

26. it's actually pronounced more like 'Moch-Pie-Yewellecht'

ancient latvian for 'most cursed among men'

[Beetwasher]

27. Interesting

I could've sworn that was sandscrit for "Please don't braid my nosehair"

[catmandu57]

30. It's that fuckin homosimians fault

it's mangled the language so much that nobody knows how to speak or write properly anymore.

[sui generis]

32. actually, "yewellecht"

come from the ancient teutonic root "yeblecthbbbbb" which literally translates as "nose fur with partially dried booger".

Therefore it would properly translate as:

"please don't braid my boogery nose fur"

[GiovanniC]

31. I Am Under Seige By Your Heinous Weirdness

You're like the sheik of weird. You are weird times eighty.

Watch out -- I'm getting feisty. I'm either going to OD on some codeine or seize a bucket and paint the walls beige.