
For this Morning Misconception, let’s focus on a fallacy most foul: I before E except after C. According to my research (which, I will acknowledge, was brief) there are hundreds of words that break the rule. Words like weird, sleigh & seize, for starters. Things look even more bleak for the rule when you consider words that actually contain the three letter trifecta of C, E & I. There are roughly 923 CIE words and only 40 or so CEI words. So a more accurate rhyme might be: