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‘I’ Before ‘E’ Is A Lie, Except, Of Course, In ‘Lie’

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Even the FakeNews Washington Post (yeah, a stopped clock….yada, yada, yada) got this one right, “The ‘i before e, except after c’ rule is a giant lie.”

“I before E, except after C.”

The familiar grade school mnemonic is a “supreme, and for many people solitary, spelling rule,” linguist Edward Carney wrote in “A survey of English spelling.” Its primacy has been acknowledged in English grammar textbooks from 1866 (James Stuart Laurie’s “Manual of English Spelling,”) until the present day (Bryan Garner’s “Modern English Usage”).

But like many, many other rules in the English language, it turns out this one is built on a foundation of lies.

Thanks Anon in MT

Senator Chris Murphy – Book Burner From Connecticut

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The Senator would be well served by reading “Fahrenheit 451 [which] is a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 1953. It is regarded as one of his best works. The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and “firemen” burn any that are found.”

 

 

 

Hey Liberals, Rally This

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Yahoo reports, “Trump casts midterm elections as a personal referendum.”  Now if the GOPe would decide that it was a ‘personal’ referendum on the Republican Party and fight for the House like they are the “third monkey on the ramp to Noah’s Ark…and it’s starting to rain”, we might just get Trump’s Red Wave.

In a raucous rally in a sweltering gymnasium north of Columbus, Ohio, Trump pitched for the GOP candidate up in a special election next week and defiantly questioned the idea that, historically, the party that controls the White House suffers in the midterms, declaring “but I say why?”

“Why would there be a blue wave? I think it could be a red wave,” Trump said of his party’s prospects in November. “They want to take away what we’ve given. And we’re doing a lot of things people don’t even know about.”