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Step 99: ie ie usually says the long I sound: pie, tie, cried. It can say ee, in

field chief, thief priest

yield grief, grieve piece (Say a piece of pie)

shield relief, relieve; belief, believe; thief, thieve

There is a rule, "i before e except after c” but there are as many exceptions as regular

words. ceiling, receive, deceive, conceit, receipt; but their, leisure, seize, neither, foreign,

and a few more. EI sometimes says AY: vein veil reign eight weight weigh neigh sleigh

neighbour reindeer. Note EIR in THEIR.

ã Copyright 2000 by Elliot Right Way Books where copied or adapted from “c-a-t=CAT”. Other material ã copyright 2001 by Mona McNee