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!