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      41 year ago

      This poem by Jef Raskin includes several dozen exceptions:

      “I before E
      Except after C,
      Unless pronounced A
      As in ‘neighbor’ or ‘weigh’”
      Education is forfeit for reinforcing such rules!
      Sound a feisty reveille while eyeing the schools!
      Neither will our heirs be agreeing to deceptions
      Once seeing, herein, these sufficient exceptions:
      We were seized by a feeling
      For fleeing on the ceiling
      To a leisurely meal
      With Keith, Sheila, and Neil
      We drank madeira, so foreign, in steins
      Along with a surfeit of weird blueish wines
      Being foolish, took codeine, ate ancient proteins
      Therein guaranteeing these ogreish scenes
      Wherein we’re canoeing to a new sovereign state
      While deicing a kaleidoscope on a hot jadeite plate
      And kneeing obeisance to an overseeing king
      Our plebeian lips kissed his counterfeit ring.
      Then we unveiled their sleight-of-hand trick
      Deifying a heifer, with effect atheistic
      And falling from the heights with a loud seismic crunch
      We reignited the nonpareils we had heisted for lunch.
      So I before E
      Except after C
      Unless pronounced A?
      False decreeing, I say!