My Word for Today! Thursday, February 05, 2009

I like to read; both fiction and non. This weekend there is a book festival in Savannah. One of my favorite authors, Ms. J. A. Jance will be here. I plan to tell her that I’ve read most, if not all, of her books and get an autographed copy of her latest mystery.

My favorite website for fiction is: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/. Some other authors who are favorites of mine are Anne Perry, Nora Roberts, Vince Flynn, Tom Clancy and Brad Thor.

Keith Burk

aka “Ancient Fool”

Ps: Please send me an email at kburk7@comcast.net with your comment.  Thanks!

My Word for Today!     Thursday, February 05, 2009
Remember the saying “I before E except after C”??    My name is Keith so someone told me to add “or K or the sound of C”. That’s fine! But for years I’ve been feeling that the word “their” always looked wrong. Therefore, I decided to do a Google search for ‘I before E’.   I thought you might like to know what I found.
1) The word “their” actually fits the rule’s exception — Unless pronounced ‘ay’ as in ‘neighbor’ or ‘weigh’. 2) A cute poem highlights numerous others:

I Before E - A Prize Winning Poem

“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