Posted by Robert Hill on April 27, 2004 at 21:31:14 from 195.92.168.169 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Have you walked in Mecca? (Wild Cat Island) posted by Peter H on April 26, 2004 at 23:52:03:
The version I learned is
I before E, except after C, when the sound is E.
But even that version has exceptions: seize, weir, weird, Keith, Neil, Sheila etc.