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I before e… except when you run a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbor.
1. That doesn't refute the rule unless you find a word where there is a word sounded a "a" which is spelled ie.

2. Don't argue with me, argue with what ever English teacher made up the adage (that I merely completed) decades ago.

3. I wasn't proposing it as a 'rule' though I do find it helpful. I was merely completing the adage that another poster started.

The complete "rule" is:
i before e except after c
or when sounded as 'a' as in neighbor and weigh.

There are exceptions as in all rules. If those were included it might read this way:

I before e, except after c
Or when sounded as 'a' as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'
Unless the 'c' is part of a 'sh' sound as in 'glacier'
Or it appears in comparatives and superlatives like 'fancier'
And also except when the vowels are sounded as 'e' as in 'seize'
Or 'i' as in 'height'
Or also in '-ing' inflections ending in '-e' as in 'cueing'
Or in compound words as in 'albeit'
Or occasionally in technical words with strong etymological links to their parent languages as in 'cuneiform'
Or in other numerous and random exceptions such as 'science', 'forfeit', and 'weird'.*


But that doesn't rhyme so there is that.

I love the English language.

* Cop(ie)d from Merriam-Websters Online
 

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