Hoisted by own petard! How appropriate. 1. I hereby invoke the codicil.
2. Check the dictionary. An accepted pronunciation of inveigle is "inveegle." Does this allow me to wriggle through the escape clause? -- Bert -----Original Message----- From: Rolf Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:28 PM To: Bert Gunter Cc: R-help forum Subject: Re: [R] W-E-I-R-D Weird! On 2/07/2008, at 10:15 AM, Bert Gunter wrote: > Ow ow ow. I can't stand it any longer! "Weird" is one of those weird > exceptions in English to the "i before e except after c" rule and > is spelled > "W-E-I-R-D" . > > In case you're interested, the other exceptions are seize, inveigle , > either, leisure, neither. What about weigh and neighbour? :-) (If you're invoking the codicil ``or when sounded "aye" as in neighbour or weigh'', then shouldn't inveigle not be considered an exception either?) (Or am I mispronouncing ``inveigle''?) cheers, Rolf Turner ###################################################################### Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confid...{{dropped:9}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
