I’m picking “Colonel” needs to be respelled to match how it’s pronounced.

Try to pick a word no one else has picked. What word are you respelling?

      • Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        This poem by Jef Raskin includes several dozen exceptions:

        “I before E
        Except after C,
        Unless pronounced A
        As in ‘neighbor’ or ‘weigh’”
        Education is forfeit for reinforcing such rules!
        Sound a feisty reveille while eyeing the schools!
        Neither will our heirs be agreeing to deceptions
        Once seeing, herein, these sufficient exceptions:
        We were seized by a feeling
        For fleeing on the ceiling
        To a leisurely meal
        With Keith, Sheila, and Neil
        We drank madeira, so foreign, in steins
        Along with a surfeit of weird blueish wines
        Being foolish, took codeine, ate ancient proteins
        Therein guaranteeing these ogreish scenes
        Wherein we’re canoeing to a new sovereign state
        While deicing a kaleidoscope on a hot jadeite plate
        And kneeing obeisance to an overseeing king
        Our plebeian lips kissed his counterfeit ring.
        Then we unveiled their sleight-of-hand trick
        Deifying a heifer, with effect atheistic
        And falling from the heights with a loud seismic crunch
        We reignited the nonpareils we had heisted for lunch.
        So I before E
        Except after C
        Unless pronounced A?
        False decreeing, I say!