Dragaera

A question re: Beginning Fantasy for Youth

Fri Nov 29 19:33:41 PST 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Brust [mailto:skzb at dreamcafe.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 2:53 AM
> To: Mark A Mandel; Julie Alipaz
> Cc: dragaera at dragaera.info
> Subject: RE: A question re: Beginning Fantasy for Youth
> 
> 
> At 08:17 PM 11/28/2002 -0500, Mark A Mandel wrote:
> >
> >All together, now, class:
> >         I before E,
> >         except after C
> >         or when pronounced "ay",
> >         as in "neighbor" and "weigh".
> >
> >(Or any other time that it's followed by "gh", as in "height"
> >  and in some other words that you just have to call exceptions,
> >  like "seize".)
> 
> And don't forget weird, which is weird.

Or does it follow a rule that's non-obvious? Mark? :)