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

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > > 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
> -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?-
>
> [[BvS]]

Hodgepodge is an alteration of Middle English hochepot, and that's  from the 
Old French word for stew.

Really.  You should know better than to ask such questions here.

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