{"id":950,"date":"2010-04-23T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/04\/23\/thursday-night-what-are-freinds-for\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T01:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T05:55:00","slug":"thursday-night-what-are-freinds-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/04\/23\/thursday-night-what-are-freinds-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – what are freinds for ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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\u00a0 .. and for that I’m grateful\u00a0\u00a0 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\u00a0<\/font><\/b><\/h2>\n

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I Before E, if Taken with Caffeine<\/h2>\n

Poem \u00a91995 by Jef Raskin<\/h3>\n
\u201cI before E<\/p>\n

Except after C,<\/p>\n

Unless pronounced A<\/p>\n

As in \u2018neighbor<\/b>\u2018 or \u2018weigh<\/b>\u2018\u201d<\/div>\n

Education is\u00a0forfeit <\/b>for\u00a0reinforcing <\/b>such rules!<\/p>\n

Sound a\u00a0feisty <\/b>reveille <\/b>while\u00a0eyeing <\/b>the schools!
\n Neither <\/b>will our\u00a0heirs <\/b>be\u00a0agreeing <\/b>to deceptions<\/p>\n

Once\u00a0seeing<\/b>,\u00a0herein<\/b>, these\u00a0sufficient <\/b>exceptions:<\/div>\n

We were\u00a0seized <\/b>by a feeling<\/p>\n

For\u00a0fleeing <\/b>on the\u00a0ceiling<\/b><\/p>\n

To a\u00a0leisurely <\/b>meal<\/p>\n

With\u00a0Keith<\/b>,\u00a0Sheila<\/b>, and\u00a0Neil<\/b><\/div>\n

We drank\u00a0madeira<\/b>, so\u00a0foreign<\/b>, in\u00a0steins<\/b><\/p>\n

Along with a\u00a0surfeit <\/b>of\u00a0weird <\/b>blueish <\/b>wines
\n Being <\/b>foolish, took\u00a0codeine<\/b>, ate\u00a0ancient <\/b>proteins<\/b>
\n Therein <\/b>guaranteeing <\/b>these\u00a0ogreish <\/b>scenes<\/div>\n

Wherein <\/b>we\u2019re\u00a0canoeing <\/b>to a new\u00a0sovereign <\/b>state<\/p>\n

While\u00a0deicing <\/b>a\u00a0kaleidoscope <\/b>on a hot\u00a0jadeite <\/b>plate<\/p>\n

And\u00a0kneeing <\/b>obeisance <\/b>to an\u00a0overseeing <\/b>king<\/p>\n

Our\u00a0plebeian <\/b>lips kissed his\u00a0counterfeit <\/b>ring.<\/div>\n

Then we\u00a0unveiled <\/b>their <\/b>sleight<\/b>-of-hand trick
\n Deifying <\/b>a\u00a0heifer<\/b>, with effect\u00a0atheistic<\/b><\/p>\n

And falling from the\u00a0heights <\/b>with a loud\u00a0seismic <\/b>crunch<\/p>\n

We\u00a0reignited <\/b>the\u00a0nonpareils <\/b>we had\u00a0heisted <\/b>for lunch.<\/div>\n

So I before E<\/p>\n

Except after C<\/p>\n

Unless pronounced A?<\/p>\n

False\u00a0decreeing<\/b>, I say!<\/div>\n

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Now, I think i’m going to go to sleep for a spell \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
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note all, note Sam<\/div>\n
-me<\/div>\n
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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 … Continue reading Thursday night – what are freinds for ?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}