Why does I come before E except after C?
2007-09-21 10:50:08 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Because I said so. (get it?...corney I know :p)
2007-09-21 13:51:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The full thing is "If it rhymes with B its I befor E except after C." It only appliesto english so words that arent english it wont apply to.
I think some group of guys went this is too messy we need a rule and we'll change all the spellings to fit it.
2007-09-21 14:49:37 · answer #2 · answered by Te 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English is a Germanic language. German has many ie/ei words. In the mid 1800's Daniel Webster standardized American English with the writing of the first dictionary for America -- Webster's Dictionary. There he standardized various irregular spellings and rules (colour to color, etc....) include ie/ei spellings.
2007-09-21 10:59:02 · answer #3 · answered by weberliner 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our linguistics laws are ad lib with not real structure. Our language is just a bunch of sloppiness mangled together to form an a language that we THINK communicates our thoughts and feelings but ends up everyone has a different meaning for everything.
2007-09-21 10:55:28 · answer #4 · answered by nothingconstant 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You mean except when sounded as A as in neighbor or weigh? Life happens!
2007-09-21 10:56:09 · answer #5 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That rule is broken like all the time. What about the word "protein"? The I and the E aren't after a C! I just don't get it!
2007-09-21 10:55:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is because english is the weirdest language ever....
note that i doesn't come before e in weird.... lol
i hated that rule in school... i just learnt to spell most of the ei/ie words
2007-09-21 10:57:34 · answer #7 · answered by ◄☯♫ vanitee of vanitees ♫☯► 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i comes before e except after c b/c wen i sleeps with e, i comes first and not before e except after c b/c it already came with c
:P totally jus came up wit dat
2007-09-21 10:59:03 · answer #8 · answered by P&S Thuggin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know...and there are exceptions to that rule!! ...neither, ceiling, are 2 of them. No wonder the English language is so hard to learn!!..lol
2007-09-21 10:58:13 · answer #9 · answered by altruistic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When colonization was happening, colonist wanted to completely seperate themselves from their european successors. One of the seperation methods was to improve their language. Therefore they created a series of rules for language, many of which don't make sense.
2007-09-21 10:57:25 · answer #10 · answered by Sir Doc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was a bunch of people that got together and said, "hey, let's make spelling 20 times harder than it should be." and now we are living with the consequences. Bastards! I have enough trouble spelling already!
2007-09-21 10:58:32 · answer #11 · answered by Violation Notice 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋