Re: Daily typo - 5/14/08 - Recieve (for Receive)

eye before eee except after cee,    but not in one syllable words.     
That's from an Archie comic book back, wow, in the 1950s.   So you can 
learn something from com...uh, excuse me, graphic novels...

The word in question was weird.......

bob mead-donaldson
florida international university   

 
Nan Garrison wrote:
> No, I don't think it is being taught.  For years I've recited that rule to
> college students who have worked for me and none of them have heard it.  And
> people who know the "eye before eee, except after cee" have never heard the
> rest of it, "except when said "a" as in neighbor and weigh."  You are the
> first person I've come across in years that knows there is a continuation of
>   
>

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