is it because wierd looks weird? Just a silly thought...
2007-05-17 08:06:09 · 6 answers · asked by Nels 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It's just an exception to the rule. "Most" exceptions to the 'i before e' rule are contained in this sentence:
Neither financier seized either weird species of leisure.
2007-05-17 08:08:49 · answer #1 · answered by Cris O 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
very genuine, on each and every occasion it may use that rule for spelling it particularly is normally incorrect. poll - nicely i could say night out yet then it relies upon who i'm with. If i replaced into with the girls i could desire to extremely rather stay in and characteristic purely as lots relaxing. And if there replaced right into a stunning bloke between my thighs then i could definately quit in! Lol. X
2016-12-11 12:19:27 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's one way to remember the spelling, isn't it-----just WEIRD, since it doesn't follow the rule!
Actually, FREIGHT (and others----weight, eight, etc.) does follow the rule. The old verse goes------
I before E, except after C
and when sounded as "a" as in "neighbor" and "weigh"
Or maybe the answer, in the case of weird, is in its etymology:
[Origin: bef. 900; (n.) ME (northern form of wird), OE wyrd; akin to worth2; (adj.) ME, orig. attributive n. in phrase werde sisters the Fates (popularized as appellation of the witches in Macbeth)]
2007-05-17 08:19:02 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because in grammar and spelling, the rule is "i before e except after c" weird doesn't have "c" before the e. The first persons example is great:
"Neither financier seized either weird species of leisure"
Neither- there is no "c" so it is an "ei"
financier-"i" follows the "c" so therefore, it is "ie"
seized-same as the word "neither"
either -same as the word "neither"
weird-same as the word "neither"
species of-same as "fanancier"
leisure-same as "neither"
2007-05-17 08:20:59 · answer #4 · answered by Catherine J 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Rules are made to be broken
2007-05-17 08:13:38 · answer #5 · answered by jon_mac_usa_007 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
for the same reason freight doesn't follow that same rule
2007-05-17 08:09:01 · answer #6 · answered by THEMURPHSTER 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋