==> language/english/sentences/weird.s <== From the May, 1990 _Word Ways_: That is IE - Or, Is That EI? by Paul Leopold Stockholm, Sweden "Seeing wherein neither weirdly-veiled sovereign deigned agreeing, their feisty heirs, leisurely eyeing eight heinous deity-freightened reindeer sleighs, counterfeited spontaneity, freeing rein (reveille, neighing!); forfeited obeisance, fleeing neighborhood. Kaleidoscopically-veined foreign heights being seized, either reigned, sleight surfeited, therein; reinvented skein-dyeing; reiteratedly inveighed, feigning weighty seismological reinforcement." The above passage appears in a book on the ecological conservation measures of the enlightened plutocracies of antiquity, Ancient Financier Aristocracies' Conscientious Scientific Species Policies, by Creighton Leigh Peirce and Keith Leiceister Reid. . . . Any beings decreeing such ogreish, albeit nonpareil, homogeneity must be nucleic protein-deficient from sauteing pharmacopoeial caffeine and codeine! From an 'fgrep cie /usr/dict/words', with similiar words removed. ancient coefficient concierge conscience conscientious deficient efficient financier glacier hacienda Muncie omniscient proficient science Societe(?) society species sufficient A search through Webster's on-line dictionary produced the following exceptions: Word: *cie* Possible matches are: 1. -facient 2. abortifacient 3. ancien regime 4. ancient 5. ancientry 6. boccie 7. cenospecies 8. christian science 9. coefficient 10. concierge 11. conscience 12. conscience money 13. conscientious 14. conscientious objector15. deficiency 16. deficiency disease 17. deficient 18. domestic science 19. earth science 20. ecospecies 21. efficiency 22. efficiency engineer 23. efficient 24. facies 25. fancier 26. financier 27. genospecies 28. geoscience 29. glacier 30. glacier theory 31. habeas corpus ad subjiciendum32. hacienda 33. inconscient 34. inefficiency 35. inefficient 36. insufficience 37. insufficiency 38. insufficient 39. international scientific vocabulary 40. library science 41. liquefacient 42. mental deficiency 43. mutafacient 44. natural science 45. nescience 46. omniscience 47. omniscient 48. physical science 49. political science 50. precieux 51. prescience 52. prescientific 53. prima facie 54. proficiency 55. proficient 56. pseudoscience 57. rubefacient 58. science 59. science fiction 60. scient 61. sciential 62. scientific 63. scientific method 64. scientism 65. scientist 66. scientistic 67. secret society 68. self-sufficiency 69. self-sufficient 70. social science 71. social scientist 72. societal 73. society 74. society verse 75. somnifacient 76. specie 77. species 78. stupefacient 79. sub specie aeternitatis80. subspecies 81. sufficiency 82. sufficient 83. sufficient condition 84. superficies 85. type species 86. unscientific 87. valenciennes 88. vers de societe