Remember that old spelling rule?
i before e except after c
Well, that rule is pretty ancient, being deified either by feisty geishas, heiresses, or keister kicking grammar teachers at leisure. If you want to split hairs, meiosis might be an exception, but neither neighbors nor peignoirs seized by veiled, weighty virgins count, but what about zeitgeist?
Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew
Chief defense attorney Michael Tigar (in the trial of Terry Nichols for
the Oklahoma City Bombing) responded to shouts from television news
reporters with “We deny all the allegations and we’re
interrogating the allegators.”
Be careful with those jaws, Mike. Of course, this was funnier as a
sound bite than it is in print, since you can see the spelling, but I
would bet that Mr Tigar winced as those words came out of his lips and
reached his ears.
Slobbers Staggers Swaggers Staggers Slobbers
This year try installing your Christmas tree upside down. The ornaments will hang straighter, since they will no longer brush against those pesky, longer, lower branches.