Talk:I before E except after C

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EE pronunctiation

It may be more useful to evaluate plausibility of "I before E except after C whenever the pronunciation is EE".

So we are looking for plausibility of "I before E whenever the pronunciation is EE (except after C)" and the plausibility of "E before I after C, or whenever the pronunciation is not EE".

Could we integrate that into this task?

Markhobley 10:30, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mark. I did see that mentioned as a way to make the phrase more accurate but I dismissed using it as:
  1. I would need to get hold of word pronumctiations.
  2. I really wanted to add to the call that this particular aide-mémoire should be dropped altogether.
--Paddy3118 15:11, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
For the pronunciations, just add a flag against each value: Y - pronunciation is EE, N - pronunciation is not EE.
We could then evalulate plausibility with and without factoring the pronunciation and compare the results.
This would make sense in terms or real evaluation of the phrase. Should it be "I before E except after C", or "I before E except after C whenever the pronunciation is EE", or are both phrases not plausible. The solutions to this task could provide an answer.
What happens after C, if the pronunciation is not EE? Does the EI become IE? Maybe the solutions could also determine plausibility of "Pronunciation is NOT EE, but still EI after C"
Markhobley 01:04, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Mark, can you think of a way to automate "just add a flag against each value ..."? --Paddy3118 07:30, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Multiple IE or EI in the same word

Should we count words or occurrences of "ie" and "ei"?

How should we handle words that have both "ie" and "ei", or multiple "ie" or multiple "ei"? --PauliKL 09:35, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

It is OK if a word is in more than one group. --Paddy3118 20:22, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
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