Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Changing Unanimous Yes

[Rob Speer <rspeer@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:24:20AM -0600, Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:
> >From: Luk Vandelaer <luk.vandelaer@xxxxxxx>
> >PS. Question: is it recEIve or recIEve ?
> >    In the rules, receive is used 48 times and recieve 32 times.
> 
> "I before E, except after C" ...and some other funky exception.  In this 
> case, it's after C, so it's EI, or recEIve.

I hate the I before E "rule" in all its variations.

Once I took a dictionary file and sorted out all the words with ie or
ei. The fact is that the rule "I before E, always", while blatantly
wrong, is correct more often than "I before E except after C". Adding
the "or when sounded as A" exception makes it do only slightly better.

But that means you just have to remember how to spell 'receive'.
-- 
Rob Speer

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