'i' before 'e' except after 'c'?

What are the exceptions to this rule?

'i' before 'e' except after 'c'?
The english language is not DEFICIENT in exeptions to this rule - much more than EIGHT. So BEING EFFICIENT with my answer I will FORFEIT my LEISURE. In good CONSCIENCE I must state that many are of FOREIGN origin ALBEIT ANCIENT. EITHER the FEISTY GEISHA or the BEIGE SPECIES of ROTWEILLER SUFFEIT as SUFFICIENT examples. ATHEISTor believer in DEITIES, no NEIGHBOUR can FEIGN to SIEZE this knowledge. NEITHER HEIGHT nor WEIGHT can VEIL THEIR WIERD or HEINOUS REIGN.


HEIGH-HO I must REINFORCE the CAFFEINE in my VIENS.
Reply:I before e except after c or when sounded like a as in neighbor and weigh.
Reply:As you can see m8, there are loads of exceptions to this rule and whoever thought it up in the first place was quite clearly a Muppet
Reply:I don't think there are any
Reply:i think you said it..."except after c"....lol
Reply:The rest of the rule says " - when the word rhymes with ee". Protein is one exception and ceiling is another
Reply:i think it's d.
Reply:Don't know, please tell us.
Reply:Weird is a definate exception. So's neighbour / neighbor. That explains why I can't spell them!
Reply:When sounding like "A" (aye) as in neighbor or weigh
Reply:e before i with anything else
Reply:Did I see a penis where it shouldn't be????
Reply:none unless you mispell the word. im a horrible speller though i think mainly because my fingers work faster than my brain.


wait aminute weights is one maybe there is no exception then.
Reply:The rule is 'i' before 'e' except after 'c', unless it makes the sound 'a-e' as in neighbor and weigh. However there are many other exceptions. If it makes the 'ee' sound it starts with 'e' and it it makes the 'i-e' sound it starts with 'i'. Also the word weird- but I just remember WE are weird to help remember that it is e before i. Either memorize the words you need to know, or use a dictionary or spell check to correct the words.
Reply:look in www.dictionary.com
Reply:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_before_e_...
Reply:That is a tough one but here is some:





Beige


Being


Eight


Feign


Penis





And loads more. lol
Reply:Neighbor, weigh, sleigh, skein,





Which actually do follow the rest of the rhyming rule, which continues:





Or when they say "a" as in neighbor and weigh.
Reply:Their
Reply:science is one
Reply:Eight


Height


Weight
Reply:weird





that's all that's coming to mind at the moment but i know there are others
Reply:Feint would be another...weight, freight...
Reply:Receive (d)
Reply:some exceptions are:


ancient


science


conscience


deficient


efficient


financier


glacier


omniscient


prescient


proficient


society


species
Reply:very good , and you all get a blue peter COIN
Reply:Reign...and many other words with roots in French verbs...

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