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Is it just myself, or does everyone have to do a silent recital of "I before E, except after C" before you spell words like yield and field?

Then you get to words like neighbour, and you get really, really mixed-up.

Of course, you eventually learn that the whole things goes like this:

I before E, except after C
Or when sounding like A, as in neighbour and weigh




Is it just myself, or does everyone have to stop and think before they spell words like except and exercise?

I mean, where should the C go? Excercise looks about correct, right?





Do people still get confused whether the last vowel of independent is an A or an E?

Do they have to recall what their Biology lecturers said about incorrect spellings every time they write independent variables?

Once, Yee Wan was asked to stand up and spell independent, and she spelt it i-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-t.

I was practically shouting inside, No! It's i-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-A-n-t!

Split second later, Ms. Param went, "Correct. But SOME people spell it with an A."

And it was like being told, um, my natural hair colour isn't black, or something, because all the while the only independent I've known is with an A.




Does everyone feel triumphant once they can spell necessary and cigarette correctly the first try, without needing to cross it out and respell?




And during high school English essay exams, instead of your question paper being written on with rough outlines and tentative points, you pretty much fill it up with spelling try-outs, sometimes going up to 5 various spellings of the same word?




And while I'm typing this, Answers.com is on the next tab, proving itself to be very useful.