metasactreon:

the-perfect-scientist:

metasactreon:

the-perfect-scientist:

We all know the rule: “I before E, except after C and when sounding like ‘ay’ as in neighbor and weigh and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May; and you’ll always be wrong no matter WHAT you say!”

But there is an extended rule where the I can go before E after C like in ‘fanciest’ and ‘efficient’ and, the word we all love, ‘science’.

From what I understand, this has to do with origins of words, and with different root languages they bring different rules.

But I’m not a linguist – the rule that I go by is that English is hella broken, and if you want to have any semblance of an appearance of competence you have to learn each individual word one by one and learn how it’s spelled and how it sounds because NONE OF THEM follow any RULES.

English needs to be fixed.

English is hella broken, I agree. English mugs other languages for loose vowels and spellings.

However, wordnesia is just a feeling of wrongness and it was sticking too long. I have taken your husband’s advice of say nothing and drink to forget. Staring too long at any word is unhealthy and can lead to the sensation of wrongness (most likely why pens and pencils are banned.)

It’s probably why some books are banned too.

The word that gets me is ‘restaurant’. Just… I wanna say ‘restaurAUNT’. Also College… not ‘colledge’.

Science looks right and beautiful again! Thanks for helping me through that!

Also… Colledadgejfkjcht it never looks right.

You’re welcome!