Remember:
I before E except after C...unless it's an ancient weird concierge!
My dad told me that one. He also forwarded me this article, based on a contest to write the longest sensible sentece(s) using only words that were exceptions to the common rule of "I before E"
You really have to pay attention to understand it...
That is IE - Or, Is That EI?
by Paul Leopold
Stockholm, Sweden
"Seeing wherein neither weirdly-veiled sovereign deigned
agreeing, their feisty heirs, leisurely eyeing eight heinous
deity-freightened reindeer sleighs, counterfeited spontaneity,
freeing rein (reveille, neighing!); forfeited obeisance,
fleeing neighborhood. Kaleidoscopically-veined foreign
heights being seized, either reigned, sleight surfeited,
therein; reinvented skein-dyeing; reiteratedly inveighed,
feigning weighty seismological reinforcement."
The above passage appears in a book on the ecological conservation
measures of the enlightened plutocracies of antiquity, Ancient
Financier Aristocracies' Conscientious Scientific Species Policies,
by Creighton Leigh Peirce and Keith Leiceister Reid. . . .
Any beings decreeing such ogreish, albeit nonpareil,
homogeneity must be nucleic protein-deficient from sauteing
pharmacopoeial caffeine and codeine!
From an 'fgrep cie /usr/dict/words', with similiar words removed.
ancient coefficient concierge conscience conscientious deficient efficient
financier glacier hacienda Muncie omniscient proficient science
Societe(?) society species sufficient
A search through Webster's on-line dictionary produced the following exceptions:
Word: *cie*
Possible matches are:
1. -facient 2. abortifacient 3. ancien regime
4. ancient 5. ancientry 6. boccie
7. cenospecies 8. christian science 9. coefficient
10. concierge 11. conscience 12. conscience money
13. conscientious 14. conscientious objector15. deficiency
16. deficiency disease 17. deficient 18. domestic science
19. earth science 20. ecospecies 21. efficiency
22. efficiency engineer 23. efficient 24. facies
25. fancier 26. financier 27. genospecies
28. geoscience 29. glacier 30. glacier theory
31. habeas corpus ad subjiciendum32. hacienda 33. inconscient
34. inefficiency 35. inefficient 36. insufficience
37. insufficiency 38. insufficient 39. international scientific vocabulary
40. library science 41. liquefacient 42. mental deficiency
43. mutafacient 44. natural science 45. nescience
46. omniscience 47. omniscient 48. physical science
49. political science 50. precieux 51. prescience
52. prescientific 53. prima facie 54. proficiency
55. proficient 56. pseudoscience 57. rubefacient
58. science 59. science fiction 60. scient
61. sciential 62. scientific 63. scientific method
64. scientism 65. scientist 66. scientistic
67. secret society 68. self-sufficiency 69. self-sufficient
70. social science 71. social scientist 72. societal
73. society 74. society verse 75. somnifacient
76. specie 77. species 78. stupefacient
79. sub specie aeternitatis80. subspecies 81. sufficiency
82. sufficient 83. sufficient condition 84. superficies
85. type species 86. unscientific 87. valenciennes
88. vers de societe