Comments on: I Before E Except After C

By: jackie

jackie — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:03:48 +0000

I learned “i before e, except after c, and sounded like a as in neighbor and weigh. But then a weird neighbor in a beige veil….” I don’t recall the rest; unfortunately, neither does anyone else.

By: marty

marty — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:23:08 +0000

what about the word science….why not the i before e rule here?

By: Melinda

Melinda — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:34:03 +0000

Dot Hermansen – Better late than never, I suppose. I found the whole poem on a blogspot blog. Here it is for you and for others who are wondering:
i before e, except after c
or when sounded like an a
as in weigh, neigh, or sleigh.
drop this rule when -c sounds as -sh
like ancient, species, efficient;
but what do we do about
neither, height, leisure, weird???
Or abseil, albeit, atheist, beige,
caffeine, codeine, deity,
feisty, forfeit, heifer,
heinous, heir, meiosis,
protein, sleight, surfeit,
their

By: jade

jade — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:56:50 +0000

what is the point of i after e except after c it sounds the same really

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:56:55 +0000

What are more words that are I before E except after C???
like ceiling or receipt??????????? I need help!

By: chris

chris — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:53:38 +0000

What about this rule…
“When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.” – meant to help kids decode words with 2 consecutive vowels like ‘road’ or ‘steal’.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:49:04 +0000

What would apply to double same vowels like feel or fool. Are there rules like the i and e rules for those two. Or aardvark.

By: Cooly Connor

Cooly Connor — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:02:17 +0000

does society follow the rule with the syllable seperation joe?

By: Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:51:20 +0000

I don’t think that this always works. I remember that i followed this advice to write weird. so i wrote wierd. In the end i got it wrong. What are some of the other words that don’t follow this rule? I hope that you can give me all of them so i don’t get them wrong the next time i have a spelling test!

By: Kayceen

Kayceen — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:17:07 +0000

To Dot:
This is the one I teach …. if you remember and utilize all 4 of these lines, there are VERY FEW exceptions…
I before E, except after C,
Or when it sounds like ‘A’, like in Neighbor and Weigh,
Or when it sounds like ‘Ear’, like in the word Weird,
Or when it sounds like ‘Eek’, like in Sheik!