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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
scIEnce
English is so full of exceptions its a wonder it has become the lingua franca. Or maybe it's because it's so full that you can adapt it however you want.
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Hence the '...' at the end of my non-exhaustive list of exceptions. Probably the 'sc' in 'science' is considered a diphthong (look it up yourself!) so the rule doesn't apply.
You'd think the 'lingua franca' would be French.
I use Google Chrome as my primary browser these days as it seems to have a lot of features for a smaller memory footprint than Firefox. I only use IE these days when I hit a site which insists on using IE-specific ASP code. Anyway, Chrome also has a built-in spell checker which can be tailored to the appropriate flavo(u)r of English but it's really annoying not having spell-checking in Outlook Express without installing MS Office.
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