Ok.. so I’ve taken much heat for my spelling over tae last couple of years.. I have to confess that freinds and friends both look just as right to me without a spell checker.. and sometimes i don’t even get close enough for the spell checker to guess. I think that the touch of dyslexia that makes me a poor speller makes me better at scrabble  .. and for that I’m grateful   I was discussing this with freinds in Facebook .. particularly the ‘i-before-e-excpet-after-c’ rules.when my friend Brain pointed me at the following 

I Before E, if Taken with Caffeine

Poem ©1995 by Jef Raskin

“I before E

Except after C,

Unless pronounced A

As in ‘neighbor‘ or ‘weigh‘”

Education is forfeit for reinforcing such rules!

Sound a feisty reveille while eyeing the schools!
Neither will our heirs be agreeing to deceptions

Once seeing, herein, these sufficient exceptions:

We were seized by a feeling

For fleeing on the ceiling

To a leisurely meal

With Keith, Sheila, and Neil

We drank madeira, so foreign, in steins

Along with a surfeit of weird blueish wines
Being foolish, took codeine, ate ancient proteins
Therein guaranteeing these ogreish scenes

Wherein we’re canoeing to a new sovereign state

While deicing a kaleidoscope on a hot jadeite plate

And kneeing obeisance to an overseeing king

Our plebeian lips kissed his counterfeit ring.

Then we unveiled their sleight-of-hand trick
Deifying a heifer, with effect atheistic

And falling from the heights with a loud seismic crunch

We reignited the nonpareils we had heisted for lunch.

So I before E

Except after C

Unless pronounced A?

False decreeing, I say!

Now, I think i’m going to go to sleep for a spell 🙂

note all, note Sam

-me