19. I Before E Except After C
Way to let your Spelling B dad down, kid. He wouldn’t have even made this mistake if he knew I always comes before E except in the one circumstance of if they’re put after C. Why that is the case, I have no clue, but English is full of arbitrary rules, so here we are.
On second thought, I can really sympathize with this kid. He’s trying to learn a language that barely has any internal consistency while it is also a mesh of several languages, further making it confusing. Let’s just switch to Spanish. ¿Hablas español?