i always thought it was i before e except after c

wtf their?!

why you so wrong?

It’s “I before E except after C with the exception of Their.”

But, for good measure, here is the list of words that don’t follow that rules.

        absenteeism
        ageism
        albeit
        Alexei
        Alzheimer
        Anaheim
        atheist
        beige
        being
        Beijing
        Beirut
        Boeing
        Budweiser
        caffeine
        codeine
        counterfeit
        cuneiform
        deign
        Deirdre
        edelweiss
        eider
        eight
        Einstein
        either
        Fahrenheit
        feign
        feint
        feisty
        foreign
        forfeit
        freight
        geiger counter
        geisha
        heifer
        height
        heinous
        heir
        heist
        herein
        Holstein
        homogeneity
        Hygeia
        inveigh
        inveigle
        kaleidoscope
        Keith
        Klein
        Leicester
        leishmaniasis
        leisure
        leitmotif
        Madeira
        meiosis
        monteith
        neigh
        Neil
        neither
        nonpareil
        nuclei
        nucleic
        obeisance
        onomatopoeic
        Oppenheimer
        plebeian
        Pleiades
        poltergeist
        protein
        queueing
        reimburse
        rein
        reindeer
        reinstate
        reinvent
        reitbok
        seismic
        seize
        sheik
        Sheila
        skein
        sleigh
        sovereign
        surfeit
        surveillance
        Taipei
        their
        theism
        veil
        vein
        weigh
        weir
        weird
        wisenheimer
        zein
        zeitgeist

I heard it was i before e except after c when the sound is long e. Thus most of those, e.g., “weigh,” “sovereign,” and of course “their,” aren’t really weird. But “weird” is weird.

“i before e except after c and when sounding like a as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout may, and you’ll always be wrong no matter what you say”

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suchducks:

nevver:

We Love Typography

“I think there’s some sort of implication in that picture that the squid might win the fight against the whale, but I think what happens is that the whale eats the squid.”

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honestwolf:

__________

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fruity23:

(via lovegifs)

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cadwaladr:

castratingcutie:

skoutt!nocturnalstillife

I often have greasy hair, I drink, and sometimes smoke, I had a black eye once, I use bad language and wear rumpled clothing, I have at times carried a switchblade, I have shoplifted, and worn old sneakers. Am I a delinquent?

I have old shoes and sometimes bad posture. I’m a hooligan.

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my favorite thing at the moment

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Kashmir

Shot from above, the angle produces a provocative look at Cat and Dog. Mortal enemies. And yet, these two co-exist peacefully. They even look like one another. Perhaps Indians and Pakistanis can learn a little something from this photograph. Great art is transcendent.

by Ryan Howard

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(via suchducks)

i miss his nerd glasses :( stupid baltic sea

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my favorite christmas song…

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fruity23:

cumicoco:

jgzogaib:

squaredoor:

crashinglybeautiful:

Hollywood Audition for A Black Cat (from My Cabinet of Curiosities)

for i* have a cunning plan

i always thought it was i before e except after c

Kashmir