Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Are the exceptions swallowing the rule?

Can you figure out what the following words have in common? It shouldn't be too hard, but I'm not going to tell you today.

albeit
ageing
atheism
being
caffeine
counterfeit
deify
either
foreign
forfeit
height
kaleidoscope
leisure
neither
protein
reimburse
reinforce
reinstate
seeing
seize
sovereign
surfeit
weird

Stay tuned.

1 comment:

Mark Kusenberger (Koos) said...

no comments by now? all these words break the "i before e except after c rules." none should like a as in neighbor and weight either.
(see what I did there?)