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#49363 12/04/01 01:47 PM
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Looking for exceptions to that rule:

their
weird
Raleigh
heir
weir

...What are some others?

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...c or when sounded like a as in neighbor or weigh; thus Raleigh, their, heir are not really exceptions, but actually "Exceptions".

caffeine, codeine, eider, either, feisty, heifer, height,
heist, leisure, neither, protein, seismic, seize, stein...


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"Neither finincier seized either species of weird leisure."


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WW - If you ask WOW and me the first one on your list is *debatable...


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Musick: The first is "their"...what's the debate?

And tsuwm: To throw a monkey wrench into the computer is monkey wrench one word or two...forever seeking the Scrabble builders, Raleigh in North Carolina is pronounced: RAH-lee. [raspberry]

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Do a search on all forums over the last year and you'll see that thier are a number of examples which may *warrant thier being a permenant alteration of all of thier spellings (Oh, I'm in *trouble now)... not that thier is anything wrong with the *original version.[end disclaimer]


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(Oh, I'm in *trouble now)
Uh huh. Now, you know we've had a little talk about this...


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My usual example to disprove the 'I before e' dictum is, "Neither of their weirs were eight feet in height."


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todays wwftd is... velleity


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tsuwm: I noticed that! It's on the Byrne site, too, and with an accurate definition.

One-horse open sleigh
Eight reindeer...
However, sleight is pronounced differently from the three above, isn't it?

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