I before E except after...

[MarkyMark]

abbreviation............its such a long word

 

[kitten_caboodle]

abbreviation............its such a long word

and there's no other word for 'Thesaurus'

 

[Scuzi]

Annoying word : Bough

(pronounced Bow)

That's pronounced as 'bockh' just like Lough = 'lockh'

 

[Tonks]

Rule

Write I before E
Except after C
Or when it sounds like an A
As in "neighbour" and "weigh"



i before e: relief, believe, niece, chief, sieve, frieze, field, yield

e before i: receive, deceive, ceiling, conceit, vein, sleigh, freight, eight

Exceptions
seize, either, weird, height, foreign, leisure, conscience, counterfeit, forfeit, leisure, neither, science, species, sufficient

 

[Ricochet J]

That's pronounced as 'bockh' just like Lough = 'lockh'

Is that as in the bough area on a snooker table?

 

[Scuzi]

Is that as in the bough area on a snooker table?

No idea, I'm just being awkward with my celtic tongue

 

[Oracle]

T'actual rule is

I before 'E' except after 'S' or 'C'

as in 'Ceiling'

 

[Vonhelmet]

Read it and weep...

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

 

[SiriusB]

Is that as in the bough area on a snooker table?

Or a branch on a tree...

SiriusB

 

[Welshy]

It always annoyed me as a kid when the teachers used to say there's a vowel in every word, when there isnt a vowel in Rythm

 

[SiriusB]

It always annoyed me as a kid when the teachers used to say there's a vowel in every word, when there isnt a vowel in Rythm

Last I looked Rhyme had a vowel

EDIT: Nevermind - ninja edit, eh?

SiriusB

 

[Snash]

Read it and weep...

fantastic

 

[Welshy]

yeah sorry, i noticed a vowel in Rhyme as soon as i posted it

 

[Basher]

so, for all you people learnign english its

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

Surely that would bean that it would become E before I? Your origninal post confirmed that it was i before e so what are you confused with!?

 

[Van Hellseek]

protein

 

[Visage]

'Water after E (but not *too* much....)'

 

[Exentia]

It always annoyed me as a kid when the teachers used to say there's a vowel in every word, when there isnt a vowel in Rythm

No, but there is another "h"

 

[SiriusB]

yeah sorry, i noticed a vowel in Rhyme as soon as i posted it

Even though Rhythm doesn't actually have one of the standard vowels in the word, some people consider Y to be a substitute vowel.

In the very least Rhythm has a vowel SOUND in it... so you would be correct in saying all words have at least one vowel in them [regardless how they are spelled].

SiriusB

 

[Welshy]

No, but there is another "h"

ok ok, has everyone finished correcting me today?

 

[Exentia]

ok ok, has everyone finished correcting me today?

how many times did you read that sentence to make sure you had made no more mistakes, eh? eh?