I mean think about it:
I before E except after C
Unless it sounds like and A, as in weighing or neigh...
lol. I had to get that off my chest, Have fun...
2007-10-26 09:18:17 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
lol. I suppose not.
2007-10-26 09:22:34 · update #1
Yes I do Joe, thank you!
2007-10-26 09:23:45 · update #2
And I thought about theist after it posted, or I woulda thrown it in there...stupid yahoo should let us edit questions like we can answers...
2007-10-26 09:24:51 · update #3
we don't follow rules. we break them...
2007-10-26 09:29:37 · answer #1 · answered by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Use "i" before "e" except after "c"
or as sounded as "a" as in neighbor and weigh
but their, weird, either, neither, leisure, forfeit, and height or exceptions all spelled right. So now add "theist" and "atheist" to the exceptions all spelled right plus any other exceptions you can find and there are many.
2007-10-26 16:31:30 · answer #2 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rule is I before E except after C when the sound is EE.
Do theists?
2007-10-26 16:21:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The E and the I are separate syllables, you turd. The 'rule' doesn't apply.
And Atheist means "Not a 'theist'," so apparently 'theists' (aka those who believe that there is some form of God) don't follow the 'rule' either.
2007-10-26 16:22:36 · answer #4 · answered by SDW 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
well technically 'atheist' is a conjunction of 'a' - not, and 'theist' - belief in god.
Therefore does 'theist' follow the rule?
2007-10-26 16:22:03 · answer #5 · answered by Dark-River 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
LOL.
Athiest, the most "Athi" of the lot.
Atheist, a follower of the "Athe".
Or just A "non" Theist.
(I guess theists don't follow it either....)
2007-10-26 16:34:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
...as in words like neighbor and weigh
or on every third Tuesday and all through the month of May
and you will always be wrong no matter what you say!
2007-10-26 16:30:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Curious as to why you didn't ask, "Does 'Theist' follow the rule?
2007-10-26 16:22:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
scientists don't either.
the nursery rhyme isn't 100% accurate. and you can't spell atheist without "theist"
2007-10-26 16:30:54 · answer #9 · answered by Darkwolf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rules are made to be broken.
2007-10-26 16:29:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah that weird.
You see what I did there?
2007-10-26 16:22:52 · answer #11 · answered by Armless Joe, Bipedal Foe 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋