2006-09-14 08:17:10 · 8 answers · asked by The Bald One from the Future 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
it's all c's fault!!!! it's always c!!!!!
2006-09-14 08:25:52 · answer #1 · answered by nobody u know 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Personally, I don't particularly care anything whatsoever about weird seismic behavior at all. Means nothing to me.
2006-09-14 08:24:57 · answer #2 · answered by THE LONER 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's I before E except after C, or when sounded as A, as in neighbor and weigh, and except for the exceptions is how we learned it.
2006-09-15 01:47:50 · answer #3 · answered by Ford 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those are just two examples of the hundreds of exceptions in English spelling. English is one of the least phonetically spelled languages out there. That's why our dictionaries have pronunciations for each word; because it isn't always obvious by looking at a word how to pronounce it. Spanish dictionaries don't have the pronunciations for each word.
2006-09-14 08:27:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Isn't English wonderful! Just when you think you've got all the rules down pat, "they" throw in something weird to knock it all out of whack!
2006-09-14 13:04:45 · answer #5 · answered by pat z 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You forgot the rest of it:
...or when sounded as A, as in neighbor and weigh. That covers the rest of the spellings. B.
2006-09-14 08:26:13 · answer #6 · answered by Brian M 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Rules are meant to be broken.
2006-09-14 16:00:15 · answer #7 · answered by cleopatra2u 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not much
2006-09-14 08:24:23 · answer #8 · answered by Proud to be an American 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋