So does this make Foghorn Leghorn a non-rhoticity chicken?
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jaylake , Language Log has an entertainingly ranty post about the "I before E, except after C..." spelling rule and a recent suggestion by the British government that the rule is not worth teaching.
It's a digression from the rant's main point, but the following parenthetical caught my attention:
<>The word "weird" is sometimes cited as an exception [to the rule:], but in British English it is not: the <ei> represents the diphthong [ɪə:], not the monophthong [i:]. (There might be analyses of rhoti</>
jaylake , Language Log has an entertainingly ranty post about the "I before E, except after C..." spelling rule and a recent suggestion by the British government that the rule is not worth teaching.It's a digression from the rant's main point, but the following parenthetical caught my attention:
<>The word "weird" is sometimes cited as an exception [to the rule:], but in British English it is not: the <ei> represents the diphthong [ɪə:], not the monophthong [i:]. (There might be analyses of rhoti</>
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