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Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 19:10:01 -0700
From: Micah Stetson <micah@cnm-vra.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages, why?
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> >     i before e, except after c, except ...
>
> like 'surveillance' which probably is an imported french word (rob will
> correct me) from verb 'surveiller'.

"'I' before 'E', except after 'C' and when sounding like
'A' as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'" (or surveillance) covers
nearly all cases.  I don't think they ever told me the
second part in gradeschool, I learned that from my mom.

Micah