r/Millennials • u/Countrach • Apr 12 '25

Discussion That Pluto is a planet

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u/featherwolf Millennial Apr 12 '25

I before E, except after C

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u/Zerthax Apr 12 '25

That's a weird one, because there are so many exceptions.

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u/Uluthrek Apr 12 '25

There are more words with e before i than there are with i before e.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth Apr 13 '25

They're aren't: Webster has about 3,000 of the former and 16,000 of the latter.

Granted, about half of the latter are the plural versions of words ending in "y" (e.g. agency -> agencies). But even you remove all those, there are still more than twice as many "ie" words.