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Subject: [OM] Re: OT English as she is spoke OT
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:43:26 -0800
That is difficult here especially in the nether regions of the US  
because many single vowels are pronounced as dipthongs. :-)



Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA




On Dec 16, 2005, at 1:08 AM, Jonas Otter wrote:

> I'm not sure if I'm talking through my hat here, but isn't the "I  
> before E" rule about the spelling of words where the "ie" stands  
> for an "ee" sound (as in "Eeek!")? In "weird", the E comes before  
> the I because they represent a diphthong.


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