# Spelling weird wierd **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 18, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-weird-wierd/245853 "2004-05-18T22:18:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-weird-wierd/245853/41 "2004-05-20T20:57:09Z")
> [@luluBahrain](#): > > Well, I guess I’ll admit that I have a huge problem remembering how to spell either. In fact I don’t evn know if that is correct. I always want to put extra i’s and e’s in it. > Plus, I use too many commas and **right** run on sentences. But, damn it, I can spell weird correctly. I am really such an idiot. I ,of course, meant that I write run on sentences. I do not in fact right them. :smack: :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-weird-wierd/245853/42 "2004-05-20T21:54:39Z")
[http://www.psc.edu/~burkardt/wordplay/i\_before\_e.html](http://www.psc.edu/~burkardt/wordplay/i_before_e.html) > [@](#): > > The apparent perversity of English spelling is occasionally tamed by a simple rule. For example, I remember learning the famous poem: > > ``` > I before E, > Except after C. > > ``` > > It didn’t take too long for this rule to run into trouble, and I next had to learn the “revised” version: > > ``` > I before E, > Except after C, > Or when sounded like A, > As in "neighbor" and "weigh". > > ``` > > But just when we fancied that spelling had become a science, a prescient foreign geisha woman named Deirdre Oppenheimer came down from the heights of a glacier, tore off her veil, seized an ancient financier, and shamed our consciences grievously. “This society is inefficient!”, she inveighed. “I wasted my leisure becoming proficient in cuneiform hieroglyphs. Either reimburse me with the value of the Einstein coefficient, or I will drag this man back to my hacienda in Muncie, wherein he will forfeit his life!” > > I feigned interest, but looked for our feisty concierge Neil, whom I might inveigle into reining in this weird being. But he had gone to Anaheim, Beijing, Madeira and Taipei with Alexei to shop for a beige geiger counter. His absenteeism made me feel like queueing for the exit. The only sound was the neighing of the sheik’s eight reindeer, chewing their edelweiss. ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-weird-wierd/245853/43 "2004-05-20T22:30:03Z")
It’s also quiet (sic) annoying when people try to shut up by being quite (sic). If only they would become quite quiet, all would be write (sic) in my little world. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-weird-wierd/245853/44 "2004-05-20T23:23:49Z")
This reminds me of talking to my friend Corey. Now, goodness knows I enjoy talking to him… I’ve lost amjor track of time with him, and he makes me laugh. But for some reason, his spelling mistakes slightly bug me: wierd hillarious rediculous definately plus some more that I can’t think of right now… I love the guy and all, but I’m always just a bit bugged by the mistakes. However, I wouldn’t really correct him on them either. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-weird-wierd/245853/45 "2004-05-20T23:26:59Z")
Damn it! :mad: “amjor” was a typo for “major”… Call that Gaudere’s Law down on me, then… aiya! ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-weird-wierd/245853/46 "2004-05-21T00:14:41Z")
> [@](#): > > An easy way to remember this is to think “We are weird”. Thank you. I’ve always had a problem with that damn word. > [@](#): > > There are two words I consistently CANNOT spell: > > Guarantee, and Restaurant me too! And Calendar. (I just checked, and I spelled it all by my lonesome!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-weird-wierd/245853.md?page=2)