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Uploaded on Dec 16, 2010

More on this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wst3k

Stephen tries to explain why the spelling rule 'I before E except after C' doesn't really work. Some guests have more trouble than others understanding his point!

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  • athull08

    athull08 1 year ago

    Science, Sufficient, Efficient, Ancient, Society, Agencies, Conscientious, Fancied, Omniscient, Spiciest

    Their, Vein, Seize, Either, Height, Weight, Leisure, Forfeit, Foreign, Atheist

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  • Pokitaization

    Pokitaization 1 year ago

    Lee Mack - the master troll.

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  • iBrez45

    iBrez45 1 day ago

    but we have words like science (ee sound) and well... ceiling!

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  • TheGroumpfy

    TheGroumpfy 2 days ago

    Doesn't this rule target the "ee" sounding diphtongs ?

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  • TheKamanick

    TheKamanick 2 days ago

    Are you retarded?

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  • Pete Meredith

    Pete Meredith 2 weeks ago

    the rule now is that it's i before e and sometimes it's e before i :)

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  • Sarah S.

    Sarah S. 4 weeks ago

    how many people have replied to you saying "Ceiling"?

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  • elkor101

    elkor101 1 month ago

    they teach it at my school and my friend was like "LIES!!!!"

    

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  • TheFutureVisionary

    TheFutureVisionary 1 month ago

    Ceiling?

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  • Spades Neil

    Spades Neil 1 month ago

    thatsthejoke.jpg

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  • lordrah

    lordrah 1 month ago

    Who's on first?

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  • TheChickinlover

    TheChickinlover 4 months ago

    ceiling

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