How come i before e except after c does not apply to the word weird?

Question

I know it doesn't on the surface have anything to do with religion but maybe it is one of those seperate dimension like things that can qualify for a religious question.

Answer 1

don't forget that bEIng is also wEIrd like nEIghbor and wEIgh. That rule should be banned from school, or changed to, I before E cept after C, and this huge list or words.

Being
Weight
Height
Weigh
Neighbor
Seize
Deity
beige, cleidoic, codeine, conscience, deify,
deign,
dreidel, eider, eight, either, feign, feint, feisty,
foreign, forfeit, freight, gleization, gneiss, greige,
greisen, heifer, heigh-ho, height, heinous, heir, heist,
leitmotiv, neigh,
neither, peignoir, prescient,
rein, science, seiche, seidel, seine, seismic,
sheik,
sovereign, surfeit, teiid, veil, vein

Good american schooling for you.

Answer 2

The whole rule:

"Use i before e except after c or when sounded like a as in neighbor or weigh; and except seize and seizure and also leisure, weird, height, and either, forfeit, and neither"

It gets updated often. This covers most exceptions!

Answer 3

The question probably should have showed up under Language. There is no good answer -- it's just one of those peculiarities ot the language that have to be learned. Consider the pronunciation of "gem" and "get" for an inexplicable weirdness.

Answer 4

I before e except after c and words like neighbor and weird. You are talking about the word weird, after all--why would "weird" follow normal spelling rules?

Answer 5

Yeah there is always an exceptions. Like saying all asians are smart, I am the exception. Stuff like that and also Raleigh doesn't follow the i b4 e rule.

Answer 6

There are exceptions to every rule...

Rottweiler
Theist
Atheist
either
neither
Weimaraner
weight
height

These are just a few of the exceptions to the rule "i before e except after c"

Answer 7

LOL. I come here for non-religious questions too, because this is where the smart people hang out.

The spelling rule probably has to do with that second part of the poem that has something to do with "neighbor" and "weigh".

Answer 8

i before e
except after c
or when sounding like a
as in neighbor and weigh

It's hard to detect right off but it has the "a" sound

Answer 9

That is weird that of all the exception of the language, it should fall on the word weird. Kind of eerie... OMG! ... Oh, no... That one's all right.

Answer 10

It doesn't apply in "neighbor," "their," "foreign," "being," "neither, "vein," "seize," "protein," or "reign" either.
Just one of those many strange quirks of the English language.
Possibly of a extra-dimensional or extra-terrestrial origin.
That's a better explanation than many!

Hmm.
Weigh their foreign being protein.
Seize neither vein, neighbor.
Hmm.