Fwd: How good a rule is "i before e"?

From: Udhay Shankar N (udhay@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 10:54:32 PDT

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from the same place, probably, that tomwhore got the earlier forward...

> According to Webster's 2nd International Dictionary, not very:
>
> 3678 words have i before e, 2444 have e before i, except after c,
> when 256 words have i before e and 156 have e before i.
>
> So the rule is right 60% of the time, except after c, when it's
> only right 38% of the time.

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