From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!bernie
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Spelling of "weird"
Article-I.D.: watarts.1789
Posted: Tue Apr 26 16:59:08 1983
Received: Wed Apr 27 00:59:16 1983
Reply-To: bernie@watarts.uucp (Bernie Roehl)
References: watmath.4923

It occurs to me that one could use a good editor and a large dictionary to
find *lots* of exceptions to the "i before e" rules; the expression is just
   ^[^c]*ei
...I'd do it myself, but I'm really not that curious...
				--Bernie Roehl
				...decvax!watmath!watarts!bernie