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What letter? I thought it was C but ive just searched for how to spell sieve, as in a metal sieve that is used in the kitchen.

Its a weird spelling and sounds nothing like how you say it "siv"

What other stupid english words can you think of?
 
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geeza said:
What letter? I thought it was C but ive just searched for how to spell siev, as in a metal sieve that is used in the kitchen.

Its a weird spelling and sounds nothing like how you say it "siv"

What other stupid english words can you think of?


Er..it is i before e except after C? There's no c in sieve? :p

Annoying word : Bough

(pronounced Bow)
 
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Kazatan said:
and there are always exceptions to the rules in our language. but these "rules" generally hold true.

I used to think there were more exceptions than rules - I used to teach English as a foreign language and the look of confusion on people's faces when they'd finally grasped a 'rule' just to be told that there were exceptions that had no real 'rules' around how they were used was priceless :D
 
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I used to think there were more exceptions than rules - I used to teach English as a foreign language and the look of confusion on people's faces when they'd finally grasped a 'rule' just to be told that there were exceptions that had no real 'rules' around how they were used was priceless :D

lol. for the life of me I dont know why I was made to take a second language, couldnt I just have double helpings of english (or another gym lesson) :p
 
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kitten_caboodle said:
if you take each of the letters and pronounce them as they are in the word he's given, then it says 'fish' even though it's clearly not spelt that way :)

It's just an example of how the phonetic spelling of words can be interesting.
ah! thanks :D :o
 
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so, for all you people learnign english its

"I before E except after every other letter in the english language!"
 
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