4 Apr
2013
4 Apr
'13
7:43 p.m.
On 04/04/13 1:07 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
It's claimed that fully 25% of words break the I-before-E rule:
https://www.quora.com/Grammar/What-are-the-trickiest-rules-in-English-gramm…
--Toby
A little stupid.. I know about the rules for
appending an S in the right place, I just
can't seem to master them.
> I thought that perhaps Swedish does not have such a concept but then
> I saw that he does speak of power supplieS and fanS; he even talks
> about making the CPU's pin compatible, although instead of multiple
> pins of multiple CPUs that seems to suggest making the (single) pin
> of a single CPU compatible with something...
English has inconsistent rules, and freely breaks them.
It seems to have more IRREGULAR conjugations, declensions, and plurals.
Can anyone explain why the 'I' is after the 'E' in "WEIRD"?