what hope have our children got, or us as parents trying to guide them in the right ways when a so called expert deems it ok to spell words incorrectly?
full BBC report HERE
now i’ll be the first to admit, i have troubles sometimes, usually where the letters i and e are concerned, but to tell us or our kids that it’s ok….thats just madness. as a university law lecturer pointed out, misspelt words could actually change the meaning of a court report, which in turn could have very damaging consequences!
mr smith, a criminal lecturer at bucks uni really ought to have a rethink! it’s bad enough that the youth of today think that text speak (txt spk) is acceptable in the real world, without saying that a total debasement of the english language is also thus!
on a personal note, i’ve just been to wikipedia to try and solve my “i before e” problem, and i’m none the wiser!
A British version is:
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when the sound is ee
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it’s i before e
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except after c
An augmented American version is:
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i before e
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except after c
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or when sounding like “a”
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as in neighbor or weigh
There is also a more sarcastic version, which points out a couple of exceptions:
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i before e
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except after c
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we live in a weird society.
*apologies to anyone thinking that OOD was a dr who reference!
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i before e except after tea, which mostly is followed by a pee
I before e except after c ..unless ..aww fuck it , just use spell check
moose; welcome. if you have your own blog, give me a link, i’ll pay you a visit.
cynnie; that’s why it was invented!
i was talking to a young mate the other night on msn and had to say “look, i’m going to have to leave. i can’t understand what the hell you are saying!”
he repiied…”ok m8 c u l8r” what the fuck?
and by all accounts, people are actually filling job applications in and using words like ‘ova’. i despair!
silly goose ..didnt you know that photo was of the dullard?
no!! he looks completely different to the last time i saw him!
Exceptions to the rules if I before E, except after C:-
I before E :
absenteeism Aeneid agreeing albeit Alexei Anaheim Andrei apartheid atheism atheist Bahrein beige Beijing being Beirut Bernstein Blenheim Bodleian Boeing Brandeis Budweiser casein Cassiopeia counterfeit cysteine decaffeinate decreeing deify deign deity deoxyribonucleic dyeing edelweiss Einstein Epstein Fahrenheit feign feint Ferreira Fischbein fleeing foreign forfeit forfeiture freeing freight Geiger Geigy geisha gneiss Goldstein guaranteeing Guggenheim Heidelberg heigh height heighten Heine Heinrich Heinz heir heiress Heisenberg herein hereinafter heterogeneity Heublein Holstein (in)homogeneity inveigh inveigle Janeiro kaleidescope kaleidoscope Keith Klein Leigh Leighton Leila leisure leitmotif Liechtenstein lightweight l’oeil Lorelei Madeira Madeleine Marseilles McNeil Meier meiosis Meistersinger middleweight mullein Neil neither nereid nuclei nucleic obeisant Oneida O’Neill onomatopoeia Oppenheimer pantheism pantheist paperweight pharmacopoeia plebeian Pleiades Pleistocene Pompeii Poseidon prosopopoeia protein Raleigh Rayleigh refereeing Reich Reid reign Reilly reimbursable reimburse reindeer reinforce Reinhold reinstate ribonucleic Rosenzweig Schneider Schweitzer seeing Seidel seismic seismograph seismography seismology seize seizure Sergei sheik Sheila simultaneity sleigh sleight sovereign spontaneity stein Steinberg Steiner surfeit surveillant Taipei teeing their theism theist therein Thorstein veil vein vermeil villein Weierstrass weigh weight weighty Weinberg Weinstein weir weird Weiss wellbeing wherein Zeiss
except after C :
ancient coefficient concierge conscience conscientious deficient efficient financier glacier hacienda inefficient insufficient omniscient proficient science Societe society species sufficient
Easy, innit ;-)
ah…..now then…..er….
i notice a lot of germanic words there stu, which, as i don’t speak german, i’m disapproving!
the rest however.
my point entirely, how am i ever to get it right when there are so many exceptions?
I b4 E xcpt aftr C is wot I lrnt @ skl
listen mr punk….
a, you are from lancashire.
b, you live in the sarf.
c, you drink copious aounts of vodka.
4, i’ve actually met you….
need i say more?