On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:45:33 GMT, Werehatrack
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>On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:24:56 GMT, Fred <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>After the recent titanium thread I have a question on copper
>>anti-seize grease.
>>
> . . . anti-sieze formulas . . .
> . . . anti-sieze . . .
> . . . anti-sieze preparation . . .
Dear Werehatrack,
Why can't students remember simple spelling rules?
I before E except after C (receive and deceive, but not fallacies,
vacancies, science, species, or society) . . .
. . . and in words like neighbor, weigh, weight, freight, weird,
sleigh, sleight, height, being, seeing, boeing, feisty, gneiss,
heifer, schneider, deign, eisenhower, protein, seine, eight, heist,
rein, einstein, either, surfeit, frankenstein, codeine, sovereign,
heir, alzheimer, seismic, neither, stein, lei, deity, foreign, sheila,
vein, obeisance, keister, sheik, feint, and a few other pesky
exceptions, such as seize.
In the days before spell-checkers, I wrote a master's thesis that
wasted time on the subject of embarassment in the works of Mark Twain.
An embarassing spelling mistake was pointed out on a few dozen pages
of my first draft.
Luckily, my advisor was kindly enough to mention the missing -r- only
once in our conversations.
"It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a
word." -- Andrew Jackson
Cheirrs,
Carl Fogel