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50 Facts You Learned at School That Are Not Real

‘I’ BEFORE ‘E’ EXCEPT AFTER ‘C’

One of the most common and easy-to-remember rhyming spelling lessons is “‘I’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’ or when sounding like ‘a’ as in ‘neighbor’ or ‘weigh.'” The rule is wrong at least 25 percent of the time. Need some proof? Science. Forfeit. Weird. Glacier. Albeit. Fancier.

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