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What is the most useless thing you still have memorized?
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I before E, except after C, and when rhyming with "a," as in "neighbor" and "weigh."
Useless because it's wrong.
It works for most words that aren't weird
I see what you did there.
What difference does that make?
ohh, I thought you were making an “a” vs “ay” distinction.
I learned it exactly like them, with neighbor and weigh excluded. It is vague, and your interpretation isn’t wrong though. I’ve included parentheses, if that helps.
I before e, except [(after c) or (as sounding like a, as in neighbor and weigh)]