Post #543951 by woofmutt on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 7:44 AM

Here's an old standard I thought I'd rewarm just for this performance...

It's weird.

Weird. Weird. Weird.

w-e-i-r-d

I generally don't give a crap about other people's spelling, pronunciation, grammar, typos, or malapropisms (look it up*****) as long as intended meaning is communicated. I ain't no good a speller much myself, nor are my hands light on the fingertips when dancing across the keyboard. (OK, I do scratch me head a little when someone who is involved with words or language for a living constantly makes spelling mistakes or typos.)

But weird is one of those words yuh'd figure everyone would have got the memo on by now.

It's the fault of that damned i before e rhyme again.

If only there were some easy way to remember that weird has a weird spelling when it comes to the i before e rule...

*****Bonus points if you don't need to look it up. Extra special Woofmutt Is Impressed, Partner Points [WIPPs] if you know, without research, the seventeen-seventy-something origin of the word.