18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
2:19 a.m.
Rich Alderson wrote:
Not even Latin spelling is entirely
static--ecclesiastical Latin
spellings often differ from the classical language.
And it's
i before e except after c,
if the sound of the word is 'long e'
I always learned it as:
I before E except after C
Except when sounding like A
As in "neighbor" and "weigh"
Peace... Sridhar