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There's a rule in English grammar that every English speaker knows, but likely doesn't know they know. The rule was popularised by a Tweet [1], but I learned a
by AndrewOMartin 6y ago
There's a rule in English grammar that every English speaker knows, but likely doesn't know they know.
The rule was popularised by a Tweet [1], but I learned about it here on HN.
[1] https://twitter.com/MattAndersonNYT/status/772002757222002688 https://twitter.com/MattAndersonNYT/status/77200275722200268...
- BerislavLopac 6y agoEnglish also has one weird exception to the rule "I before E except after C"... ;)
- _nalply 6y agoGerman has a very similar rule but as a native German speaker I can't talk about this rule. I just know that I know something but don't know what exactly I know.