I Before E

I, too, greive for such errors...😜

@Nom 😄

@crowncottage :)

There are more exceptions to that rule than conformants. It is no longer being officially taught in schools, though some still teach it. An example of an exception is "their"..

@Earthbound Very true and nicely caught. ;) With 'their' we're also talking another grammar game of homophonic heterographs. Isn't the English language fun? ;)

@Nom Oh, if I had a penny for every time... :D

@Snowy you'd be a poor man/woman? ;)

I love it. 💜

This is great!

Brilliant! Trying to get my daughter to grasp this...I shall read her your poem 😉

Ahhh. This one actually does trip me up. I have it in my head that there are one or two exceptions to the rule which has rendered me completely inept when dealing with I and E

@Earthbound what the heck?! No wonder I've been so confused by this "rule". Hardly really a rule if the exceptions outweigh it : {

@Snowy

@Snowy Nice one 👍

@crowncottage 😝😄

@Nom Lol, woman. Now I have to ask about you ;)

@redfae Aw, thanks! Thank you for reposts too, very kind of you!

@ashhkat thank you! Glad you liked :)

@Fly10 Lol, awesome, thanks! Should be ideal for beginners. :)

@ckahn it's a complicated one, isn't it? It catches out a lot of people still. For this I worked off keeping it simple.

@ckahn Aw, I hope I didn't disappoint? I'd be here all day doing all the exceptions... Although maybe I could do a part two for you... ponders

@TheViolator Thank you! Thanks so much for reposts, very kind! :)

I still use it to assist with words such as "friend" and "piece".

@Snowy I assume that's "there", they're" and "their". Strangely, I've never had a problem with that. "Were" and "where" had me stumped for a while, though, as did "your" and "you're", but I'm fine with them now. "night" and "knight surprisingly never confused me, and, if I'd stop waffling on for a second about irrelevant things, we could get back on topic.

@Snowy the opposite!