Reply To: I Before E, Except After C

Jphone: this rule is actually quite accurate. I b4 e except after c or when sounding as A.

species,

science,

sufficient,

ancient,

society,

seize,

weird,

atheist,

sovereignty,

foreign,

height,

freize,

feisty,

kaleidoscope

seive,

being,

sleight,

their,

sufficient,

heir.

These are just the ones I thought of after a few minutes.

I agree the rule has a certain utility to it, I wouldn’t say though that it is: “quite accurate”