| Baron von Skippy on 21 Mar 2003 03:12:01 -0000 |
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| Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Changing Unanimous Yes |
-Welcome to this glorious hodgepodge we laughingly call a language... Has anyone ever /looked/ at words to see how odd some of them really are? Like, where did we get "hodgepodge" from, anyway?-> >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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