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

[Phlip]

Adamantius skrev:

> 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

Well, I was just throwing out the exceptions, as I was taught them 40 years
ago. Of course, you were probably still in diapers then ;-)

Phleip