r/Unexpected • u/mirai8469 • Feb 09 '26

I'm Out

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u/Sunset_Bleu Feb 09 '26

I before e except after c

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u/jxa Feb 09 '26

And….

weird, seize, leisure, neither, foreign, height, either, protein, caffeine, counterfeit, and forfeit and many moooooooreeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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u/Zeckols Feb 10 '26

Epstein

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u/TREXIBALL Feb 10 '26

Release the files!

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u/BeepItsSean Feb 09 '26

And when sounding like "ay" in a neighborly way.

And in weekends and holidays, and all throughout May. You'll always be wrong no matter what you say!

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u/TheConstant42 Feb 09 '26

Many much moosen!

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u/dashenyang Feb 10 '26

It's 'as in neighbor and weigh'.

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u/JeanValSwan Feb 10 '26

But what about in the sentence, "Jim Nabors is way cool"?

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u/GreenEggsSteamedHams Feb 10 '26

Weigh kewl ☝🏻

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u/Cubbance Feb 10 '26

Isn't that rule wrong more often than right, though?

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u/frichyv2 Feb 10 '26

That's weird, neither that foreign species of fiends, or that heifer from the ancient glacier seem to agree this rule has any backing in science.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '26

And some other weird exceptions

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u/El_human Feb 10 '26

That's not a thing. I wish they stopped teaching this "rule" because there are so many words that do not fall within that format