From: David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> To: Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com> >On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote: > >>On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Casey Rousseau wrote: >> >>#Peirs Anthony >> Piers >> >>#Tolkein >> Tolkien >> >>"I before E except after C, >> Or when pronounced 'ay', as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'." > >Heinlein. Peirce. Sleight. Seize. Deice. Weir. Deil. >Deity. Deis. Their. Heir. And "weird", "sheik", "foreign", "height", "leisure". I think it was Patrick Nielsen Hayden (coincidentally SKZB's editor) who formulated the rule, "I before e except when it isn't." This rule has the advantage of having no exceptions. -- David Goldfarb |"An athiest is a person who wierdly refuses goldfarb at ocf.berkeley.edu |to recieve the gift of beleif in a diety." goldfarb at csua.berkeley.edu | -- Dave Langford, on rec.arts.sf.fandom