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AUE: Exceptions to the rule ‘I before E except after C’
Examples of exceptions to the rule:

Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, “i before e except after c”, which is the only version I ever heard until a couple of years ago, here are some exceptions I’ve noted (I’ve added five of Ms Tomlinson’s words to my old list):

beige, cleidoic, codeine, conscience, deify, deity, deign,
dreidel, eider, eight, either, feign, feint, feisty,
foreign, forfeit, freight, gleization, gneiss, greige,
greisen, heifer, heigh-ho, height, heinous, heir, heist,
leitmotiv, neigh, neighbor, neither, peignoir, prescient,
rein, science, seiche, seidel, seine, seismic, seize, sheik,
society, sovereign, surfeit, teiid, veil, vein, weight,
weir, weird

Cooking For Engineers - Recipe File: Simple Tiramisu

OK, now, let me get this straight. We are the “Good Guys”? God is on “our side”? IMHO not likely if this is indicative of our efforts to do right….

Whistleblowers on Fraud Facing Penalties - Forbes.com
One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted.

Or worse.

For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.

There were times, huddled on the floor in solitary confinement with that head-banging music blaring dawn to dusk and interrogators yelling the same questions over and over, that Vance began to wish he had just kept his mouth shut.

The Local - Man arrested for having big muscles
Man arrested for having big muscles

Published: 13th August 2007 08:30 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/8168/

A well-built man was forced to take a drugs test in Stockholm recently after a police officer assumed that muscles like his could only have been developed with the help of illegal substances.