I know. Just making light of the I before E except after C. Reminds me of this.

Here's a little poem that addresses this "rule."

Sorry, it's a bit long! But worth it.

"I before E Except after C, Unless pronounced A As in 'neighbor' or 'weigh'" Education is forfeit for reinforcing such rules! Sound a feisty reveille while eyeing the schools! Neither will our heirs be agreeing to deceptions Once seeing, herein, these sufficient exceptions: We were seized by a feeling For fleeing on the ceiling To a leisurely meal With Keith, Sheila, and Neil We drank madeira, so foreign, in steins Along with a surfeit of weird blueish wines Being foolish, took codeine, ate ancient proteins Therein guaranteeing these ogreish scenes Wherein we're canoeing to a new sovereign state While deicing a kaleidoscope on a hot jadeite plate And kneeing obeisance to an overseeing king Our plebeian lips kissed his counterfeit ring. Then we unveiled their sleight-of-hand trick Deifying a heifer, with effect atheistic And falling from the heights with a loud seismic crunch We reignited the nonpareils we had heisted for lunch. So I before E Except after C Unless pronounced A? False decreeing, I say!

Source(s): Poem by Jef Raskin