From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!micomvax!ray
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: weird
Article-I.D.: micomvax.133
Posted: Tue Apr 19 10:42:20 1983
Received: Wed Apr 20 06:04:27 1983
References: rdin.275



So Scientific American quotes 'ancient' & 'science' as exception words
of the spelling rule. Never regarded them as falling into this category
myself, because the 'i' and the 'e' form two different syllables in these
words!