re: #140 Hecuba’s daughter

As someone who is spelling-challenged, I am sympathetic to certain spelling errors. The maxim is not just “i-before-e”, it’s “i-before-e except after c, or when pronounced as a as in neighbor or weigh” — or in “weird” or “leisure” or “seizure” or …… Exceptions rule in the English language.

from that English is stupid discussion yesterday:
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