From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!uw-june!dragon
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Spelling of "weird"
Article-I.D.: uw-june.377
Posted: Tue Apr 12 10:39:41 1983
Received: Thu Apr 14 00:27:20 1983
References: sbcs.268

Sorry, but those aren't exceptions.  The rule is "i before e, except after
c, and sounding as a as in neighbor and weigh."  Both you're examples vowel
sound is a long a, so they conform to the rules.

                                         Dragon