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I Before E, Except After C - Not a rule, but a joke

When I was in high school, I always had fun finding exceptions the "I before e, except after c" rule. I found over a hundred on my own back then just by searching around the Internet. It took me hours. Today I decided to take a better approach and wrote up a small script in to do the work for me. All in all, it found 533 exceptions to this rule.

Click here to view the list of exceptions.

Yeah, that's quite a few. If you're interested in how I did it, continue reading. Don't worry, I won't be sad if you came here just for the list.

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