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by Tinkabelle on March 9th, 2007

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Can you name a word that doesn't go along with the "I before E except after C" rule?

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  • by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 9th, 2007

    singwell-is off researching a lot

    Wikipedia gives the following words as not following the general rule:
    ie after c: science, sufficient, agencies, financier, efficient
    ei not after c: their, foreign, being, neither, weird, vein, seize, leisure

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  • by hijklmno on March 9th, 2007

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    Go here and find lots and lots of them.... http://www.morewords.com/contains/cie/ Generally, nouns that end -cy can be pluralised as -cies.

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  • by Universe Of Life on July 9th, 2009

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    atheism ...

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