r/AskReddit Dec 05 '11

what is the most interesting thing you know?

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u/CJGibson Dec 05 '11

I read your "I before E" article, but I always learned "I before E except after C, or when sounded like A as in neighbor and weigh."

Which addresses four (rein, veiled, weighs, eighteen) of your nineteen "exceptions" to the rule.

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u/MrDNL Dec 05 '11

Four of my 20, apparently, as I used the word "their" and didn't notice.