"I Before E" As You've Never Heard Before
Because on exam day I missed one punctuation mark in this poem, I failed to get extra credit in my 9th grade English class. Imagine the devastation!
However, being able to run the complete poem through my mind has proven to be worth much more than an extra half-grade on my unit exam, even if my punctuation is worse today than back then.
Use i before e, except after c
or when sounded as "ay", as in neighbor and weigh.
But their, weird, and either,
foreign, seize, neither,
leisure, forfeit, and height
are exceptions spelled right.
from Psalm 119:
103 How sweet are Your words to my taste,
Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.
posted on Thursday, January 19
