Re: Nerd Boy, episode 330
Anonymous <gue...@guest.net> wrote: > Tom Bampton wrote in message ... >>"Anonymous" <gue...@guest.net> wrote: >>> OK - you've heard of "'i' before 'e' except after 'c'", right ? >>> >>> Name as many words as you can where that rule applies. >>> "Receive" for one... >>> Any others, anyone ? >> >>friend, fiend, worried, wield, and many more. >> >>What ? Well, you didnt say which PART of the rule! > > Smartass ;o) > > OK, so how's about the part where you get "CEI" in that order in words as > part of the rule ? > > Like in "Receive" (which is my only example)... Unix knows all. Examples: [harry@wraith ~]$ grep -i '[^c]ie' /usr/share/dict/words |wc -l 1557 [harry@wraith ~]$ grep -i cei /usr/share/dict/words |wc -l 45 including "ceiling", "conceit", "conceive", and "receipt". Counterexamples: [harry@wraith ~]$ grep -i '[^c]ei' /usr/share/dict/words |wc -l 327 [harry@wraith ~]$ grep -i cie /usr/share/dict/words |wc -l 91 including "ancient", "science", "glacier", and a *ahem* "sufficiency" of plural forms of "-cy". | | | | | | | Evidently "rules" of language are | | | | | | | not always useful, as there are a | | | |===| )---( great deal of inconsistencies. As |_|_| |___| |___| languages go, however, English is \ / ).( [_] incredibly rich and expressive; a \-/ \|/ U simple paragraph such as this can hjm ' ' have many subtleties of language. -- Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)
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