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

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  • 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!