Monday, April 15, 2013

I Before E

"Alright, we're going to learn a new rule. This is an easy one: I before E except after C and in the following 62 words. Let's say them together..."

absenteeism
agreeing
albeit
atheist
beige
being
caffeine
canoeing
codeine
counterfeit
deign
deity
edelweiss
eiderdown
eight
either
Fahrenheit
feign
feint
feisty
foreign
forfeit
freight
gneiss
heifer
height
heir
herein
leisure
leitmotif
Madeira
neigh
neighbor
neither
oleic
pein
plebeian
Pleiades
protein
seize
reign
rein
reinstate
reveille
seeing
sheik
skein
sleigh
sleight
sovereign
spontaneity
surfeit
surveillance
their
therein
veil
vein
weigh
weight
weir
weird
wherein

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