What are some exceptions to the "i" before "e" rule?

"I" before "E" except after "C" and sounding like "A" as in neighbor and weigh.





What are some exceptions to this?


The two I came up with are atheist and weird.

What are some exceptions to the "i" before "e" rule?
The 'i before e, EXCEPT AFTER C' rule only applies for the sound of 'ee' after 'c' like receive, ceiling, conceit. There are three exceptions (when not after 'c'): seize, weird, counterfeit.





Actually there are very few words spelt with 'ie' giving the 'ee' sound. belief, believe, niece, relieve, relief, chief and a few others.





Other words like 'weigh, height, neighbour, their' don't have the sound of 'ee'.


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Reply:RECEIVE





DECEIVE





CONCEIVE
Reply:There are numerous exceptions:





beige, cleidoic, codeine, conscience, deify, deity, deign, dreidel, eider, eight, either, feign, feint, feisty, foreign, forfeit, freight, gleization, gneiss, greige, greisen, heifer, heigh-ho, height, heinous, heir, heist, leitmotiv, neigh, neighbor, neither, peignoir, prescient, rein, science, seiche, seidel, seine, seismic, seize, sheik, society, sovereign, surfeit, teiid, veil, vein, weight, weir, weird, caffeine, casein, codeine, deil (Scots, devil), disseize,


either, geisha, inveigle, keister (slang, buttocks), keister, leisure, monteith, neither, obeisance, phenolphthalein, phthalein, protein, seize, seizin, sheik, sheila (Australian slang for "girl", not capitalized), specie, species, teiid, etc.





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Reply:* beige


* feint


* feisty


* foreign


* forfeit


* heifer


* height


* heir


* heist


* neighbor


* reign


* rein


* seismometer


* their


* veil


* vein


* weigh (weight)
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