From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!npoiv!npois!houxm!5941ux!machaids!hocda!spanky!ihnp4!ihlpf!nickles
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Spelling of "weird"
Article-I.D.: ihlpf.129
Posted: Wed Apr 13 17:09:46 1983
Received: Fri Apr 15 06:40:05 1983

So what makes an exception?

	Here are some:
		height (or heist), ei sounds like "I"
		heir, ei sounds like "ai" (as opposed to a in bake)
		heifer, ei sounds like short e, as in less

	But some strange ones that sound like "e" as in meet.
		leister, meikle, teiid, teil, weiner, weir, zein

						Jack Nickles
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