On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:27 +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: > 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''?) > Oh Rolf, I won't bore you with the other 1759 words with an "ei", but we must pause to remember George Gershwin's conundrum:
You say "eether" and I say "aither". You say "neether" and I say "naither". "Eether", "Aither", "Neether", "Naither" Let's call the whole thing off... Jim ______________________________________________ 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.
