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  • I before E except after C – what a load of pish….
  • SurroundedByZulus
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    Any other “rules” tha arent worth the paper they’re written on?

    philconsequence
    Free Member

    chat forum young man, chat forum.

    my heart bleeds for the future of our fine country if people can’t even post on the correct forum.

    SurroundedByZulus
    Free Member

    On your bike.

    There, it’s on the correct forum now.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    My heart bleeds for the future of our fine country if people can’t even remember that a sentence should begin with a capital letter.

    😉

    Houns
    Full Member

    My heart bleeds for the future of our fine country if people can’t even remember that a name should begin with a capital letter

    😉

    rightplacerighttime
    Free Member

    Has anyone mentioned the missing apostrophe yet?

    jimmy
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    scaredypants
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    their heirs were weird; science suggests they’re an ancient species
    🙄

    Kevevs
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    haha SBZ, you can’t spell “Ice”. *points*

    philconsequence
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    punctuation is for XC jeyers, don simon told me so it must be true.

    joao3v16
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    PeterPoddy
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    That must have taken a while to type out….

    abennell
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    And yet i only read the first and the last word, waste of time!

    GrahamS
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    Any other “rules” tha arent worth the paper they’re written on?

    You should always use “an” when the word starts with a vowel.

    Actually it’s the sound, not the letter that matters.

    It’s an honour to see a UFO an hour before a union. 🙂

    mastiles_fanylion
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    You should wipe back to front whilst seated…

    (And no, I don’t want to see that rule written on the paper either).

    binners
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    Rules? We don’t need no steeeenking rules!!!

    Gary_M
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    I went to uni with a guy called Greig, one of our fellow students asked him how he slept his name, he told her and she advised him ‘that can’t be right’.

    Pyro
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    Erm, you’re a bit late on that. “I before E” was dropped from the curriculum some time* ago, as there are more exceptions to the rule than there are adherances.

    *can’t remember when.

    Edit: Quick google says 2009

    RealMan
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    It’s an honour

    I think “a honour” works just as well really.

    It’s an honour to meet you.

    It’s a honour to meet you.

    (It’s not really.)

    GrahamS
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    It depends on your accent.

    The h on honour should be silent, in which case “an honour” is correct, but if you pronounce it “honnar” then “a honour” would work.

    Same with “hotel” or “historical”

    CharlieMungus
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    Actually, the ‘rule’ was ‘i’ before except after ‘c’, when the sound is ‘ee’. I think most of that list are exempted because of that, of course there are still exceptions but fewer.

    speed12
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