OT: Spelling, was Re: [Sca-cooks] RE: Hot Ones

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

I think it was my fifth-grade teacher (long straight hair, Indian print
wrap skirts, leotards, ballet slippers) who taught me the rule for that
particular word is "We are weird". I very seldom spell that one wrong. ;-)

Margaret


On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, A F Murphy wrote:

> Or "weird" which seems to want to be spelled descriptively. And which
> word I seem to use a lot... my fingers want to type "ie".
>
> Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>
> >
> > "'I' before 'e', except after 'c', or when sounded like 'a', as in
> > 'neighbor' and 'weigh'."
> >
> > And 'beignets'.
> >
> > Adamantius