More cleverly, a popular mug reads: “I before e, except when your foreign neighbor Keith receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters. Weird.” There’s a ...

With words like weird, weight and Rottweiler, it appears that “i before e, except after w” is a more accurate rule than the one we all know. In the end, there is only one truly infallible rule ...

The full rhyme states, “I before E, except after C — or when sounded like A as in ‘neighbor’ and ‘weigh.’ ” It doesn’t take an Einstein to figure out this rule is just plain weird.

I before E except after C,Or when sounded as "a"As in "neighbor" or "weigh." If so, then you will have accounted for a range of exceptions. Still, you'll be out of luck on "weird" and "ancient." ...

And tricks like "I before E except after C" don't always apply. Here are 11 anomalies of the English language that make it difficult to learn. English is full of contronyms — words that have two ...