need i say more?

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 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 ;-)

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!