“I before E, except after C”
“I before E, except after C” and a few other exceptions. There’s quite a few exceptions actually and unless you’re good at remembering lists then maybe a visual might help better……
The ‘e’ will only hang from the branch of the ‘W’ as the ‘i’ would fall off because seeing is believing around here.
……..well for some people at least.
December 14th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
When I competed in spelling bees (and I did right well) I relied more on visualizing the letters than on silly verbal rules. English being the kind of language it is, you’ll never get ‘em _all_ right. I mean, had I known there was a preferred spelling for “knickknack” I might have made it to the national spelling bee.
December 19th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Thanks for this! We were just talking about this in our homeschool this week–”I before E except after C, or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh.”
I will show this picture to the kids.