Exceptions-Re: [Sca-cooks] RE: Hot Ones

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Phlip:
>Neither foreign sovereign seized counterfeit forfeit leisure either weird
>heifer height reign. Any others?
>
>Phlip

Except that foreign, sovereign, leisure, and reign are, or were, all
sounded like "a". You can probably draw a line between the "ei" words
from French and those from German/English ; the real exceptions to
the rule will generally turn out to be the German ones.

Adeimantius

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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
>To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 12:30 PM
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] RE: Hot Ones
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>
>>  Also sprach A F Murphy:
>>  >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".
>>
>>  Those wacky Northern Europeans. Gotta love 'em!
>>
>>  Adamantius
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