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.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:
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.
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.
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
plus some more that I can’t think of right now…
Damn it! :mad:
“amjor” was a typo for “major”…
Call that Gaudere’s Law down on me, then… aiya!
Thank you. I’ve always had a problem with that damn word.
me too! And Calendar. (I just checked, and I spelled it all by my lonesome!)