Saturday, March 15, 2008

Nothing to Sneeze At

Why is the noun spelled pollen but the verb spelled pollinate?

I grant the impossibility of naming anything more banal than the act of griping about the "rules" of the English language, but I just had to get that off my chest.

You are hereby excused to get on with your life while I sit here in my pee-stained underwear, repeatedly chanting I before E / Except after C / Or when sounding like A / As in neighbor or weigh, while interrupting myself with every exception that I can name.

Ancient.

SCIENTIST.

EINSTEIN. That counts for two!!!

All work and no play, and so forth.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't forget "weird"

bjkeefe said...

Necily done!

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