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We can talk about this more in the comments, yeah? Yeah!
A brilliant article on the topic (thanks, Neva!) - http://dft.ba/-eiar
A fun game based on the idea (Warning: Will consume your life) - littlealchemy.com
The JulieAndStacy video I mentioned - youtube.com/watch?v=gn1mCvw0ttU
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We can talk about this more in the comments, yeah? Yeah!
A brilliant article on the topic (thanks, Neva!) - http://dft.ba/-eiar
A fun game based on the idea (Warning: Will consume your life) - littlealchemy.com
The JulieAndStacy video I mentioned - youtube.com/watch?v=gn1mCvw0ttU
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One Minute Daily Videos: youtube.com/buelification
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![Bad Mnemonic! - Song Wednesday #02
Part 2/5 of The Dirty Lies Of English Instruction in which Bud attempts to sing a song about a really bad mnemonic device that should be forgotten! Unfortunately, by immortalizing it in such an epic piece of music, I fear Im doing more bad than good here. Either way, youll see how ridiculous it is.
Oh, and I eat pizza, too. Buy the song here, if youre interested! Proceeds go toward this years VidCon fund: http://theperfectplace.bandcamp.com/track/old-habits-hardly-die
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Song Lyrics:
When you were just a kid in grammar school
A young and impressionable mind
You may have heard your teacher mention this rule
To help you out of a spelling bind
It goes: I before E, except after C
Thats all you need to know, because teacher said so
Just memorize this mnemonic device
And youll never have to worry again
Why would I lie?
Its been a few years, not a kid anymore
Your vocabulary started expanding
Youve learned a few words, maybe eight or more
That defy this rules understanding
Now it goes: I before E, except after C
Or when sounded like A, as in neighbor and weigh
Just memorize this mnemonic device
And youll never have to worry again
Why would I lie?
Whether youre a theist or an atheist
You still break this rule every day
Neither height, nor sleight got the memo on this
Thats kind of weird, wouldnt you say?
It goes: I before E, except after C
Or when sounded like A, as in neighbor and weigh
When Es first in line, you never use the short I
If I hear another stupid exception
Im gonna cry
Let either financier inveigle the Shiekh
Into seizing species of foreign leisure
The neighbors heifer seized the deficient caffeine
So now the ancient glaciers having a seizure
[Chorus 2x]
Music: Saxon Genitive by The Perfect Place
http://theperfectplace.bandcamp.com
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