[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Paul Sture]

In article 
<910855dc-f787-4b02-9b0f-befad67e2ac2 at fn10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
 AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Feb 12, 4:50 pm, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
> undress to reply) wrote:
> > In article
> > <30cb251a-22f9-43a5-84c5-741ea5209... at hl5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, AEF
> >
> > <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
> > > disc - CD, frisbee (flying disc), phonograph record, DVD, videodisc,
> > > optical disc (or disk), abbreviation for discount, disc brakes, Blu-
> > > ray disc
> >
> > > disk - disk drive; image of a celestial body as visible in a
> > > telescope, or in the case of the Sun or Moon, also in the naked eye,
> > > and in the case of a star, which is something too small to be seen as
> > > a normal disk, a diffraction disk (in naked eye or telescope); slipped
> > > disk in the backbone
> >
> > Yes, there are rules, which vary from country to country.  But what ARE
> > the rules?  Can you describe them without examples?
> 
> The only hard and fast rule of English spelling that's guaranteed to
> work all the time is the following variant of the i before e rule:
> 
> It's i before e, except when it's e before i. :-D

"Weird" is quite aptly the exception to the "i before e, except after c" 
rule.

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Paul Sture