Abandoned
Since infogami has been abandoned by its creators, I’m out too. Back to web.fisher.cx for me. Everything that was here is there.
Robert Fisher
Just thinking out loud
I before E except after C
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# In how many words does IE appear when not preceeded by C?
$ perl -ne 'print if(/(?<!c)ie/i);' /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
15934
# In how many words does EI appear when not preceeded by C?
$ perl -ne 'print if(/(?<!c)ei/i);' /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
5459
# In how many words does CIE appear?
$ perl -ne 'print if(/cie/i);' /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
877
# In how many words does CEI appear?
$ perl -ne 'print if(/cei/i);' /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
305
So, I does seem to come before E more often (74%) when not following C. But after C, E comes before I only 26% percent of the time.
(Of course, this doesn't take into account the frequency of the words!)
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