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A more complete rule is:
"i" before "e" except
- after "c",
- in words where it sounds like long "a", or
- in words that are weird or foreign,
- and scientific words often do not follow the rules.
"i" goes before "e" in words like the following: believe, chief, field, niece, relief, sieve, and yield.
Some exceptions containing the long "a" are the usually-noted neighbor and weigh. Some more are: freight, vein, veil, geisha, sheik, and dreidel. The last three fall under the "foreign" clause even if you like to pronounce them with a long "e" sound.
The word weird is weird. 'nuff said.
The word foreign is, well, foreign. So are recent arrivals to the language, such as leisure and its ilk, from French*, and sheila, an Aussie slang word for "girl".
The word science doesn't follow the original "except after-c" rule. And caffeine, codeine, protein, and other words with the "-eine" or "-ein" ending and a long "e" sound are other scientific exceptions in the other direction.
* TheFreeDictionary notes that leisure comes from Middle English, from Norman French leisour, from Old French leisir meaning "to be permitted", from Latin licre. In terms of language, this is recent. At least, it is recent enough that the spelling has not changed to match the rule. Of course, you might be rightfully getting the impression that this rule is not much of a rule, given the hefty list of exceptions.
But then again, this is the English language. 'nuff said.
"i" before "e" except
- after "c",
- in words where it sounds like long "a", or
- in words that are weird or foreign,
- and scientific words often do not follow the rules.
"i" goes before "e" in words like the following: believe, chief, field, niece, relief, sieve, and yield.
Some exceptions containing the long "a" are the usually-noted neighbor and weigh. Some more are: freight, vein, veil, geisha, sheik, and dreidel. The last three fall under the "foreign" clause even if you like to pronounce them with a long "e" sound.
The word weird is weird. 'nuff said.
The word foreign is, well, foreign. So are recent arrivals to the language, such as leisure and its ilk, from French*, and sheila, an Aussie slang word for "girl".
The word science doesn't follow the original "except after-c" rule. And caffeine, codeine, protein, and other words with the "-eine" or "-ein" ending and a long "e" sound are other scientific exceptions in the other direction.
* TheFreeDictionary notes that leisure comes from Middle English, from Norman French leisour, from Old French leisir meaning "to be permitted", from Latin licre. In terms of language, this is recent. At least, it is recent enough that the spelling has not changed to match the rule. Of course, you might be rightfully getting the impression that this rule is not much of a rule, given the hefty list of exceptions.
But then again, this is the English language. 'nuff said.
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Films are meant to inspire not to be marketed to idiotic masses.
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if a guy is spending all his time with his girlfriend and not hanging with the dudes anymore because he's always with his girl. The dudes want the guy to put his bro's (the dudes) higher in priority than the girl (the hoe) because they were tight first
similar to sisters before mister's - what the girls say
if a guy is spending all his time with his girlfriend and not hanging with the dudes anymore because he's always with his girl. The dudes want the guy to put his bro's (the dudes) higher in priority than the girl (the hoe) because they were tight first
similar to sisters before mister's - what the girls say
1.
Tom: oh sorry i can't go boarding with you and Joe and AJ tomorrow, im chilling with sally
Dan: Bro's before hoe's, man!!
2.
dan: Hey tom over here! we got smokes!!
Tom: nah, sally doesn't like it when i smoke
AJ: Dude, bro's before hoes!!
Tom: oh sorry i can't go boarding with you and Joe and AJ tomorrow, im chilling with sally
Dan: Bro's before hoe's, man!!
2.
dan: Hey tom over here! we got smokes!!
Tom: nah, sally doesn't like it when i smoke
AJ: Dude, bro's before hoes!!
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