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I before E except after C: Difference between revisions
Add stretch goal including word frequencies.
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Something is plausible if the number of words having the feature is more than two times the number of words having the opposite feature (where feature is 'ie' or 'ei' preceded or not by 'c' as appropriate).
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Show your output here as well as your program.▼
As a stretch goal use the entries from the table of [http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/lists/1_2_all_freq.txt Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus], (selecting those rows with three space or tab separated words only), too see if the phrase is plausible when word frequencies are taken into account.
▲''Show your output here as well as your program.''
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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8110573.stm Schools to rethink 'i before e'] - BBC news, 20 June 2009
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duqlZXiIZqA I Before E Except After C] - [[wp:QI|QI]] Series 8 Ep 14, (humorous)
* [http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/ Companion website] for the book: "Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus".
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