Pierre wins! (Yes, here it is, finally!)

[Pierre Abbat]

On Wednesday 22 August 2001 23:58, Jim Moskowitz wrote:
> >Finally, what's curious or odd about the following paragraph?
> >
> >"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."
>
> Just in case anyone is waiting for the other shoe to drop, see how
> many times i comes before e (except after c) in that famous
> paragraph...

Yes, but there *are* some words where it's pronounced as in neighbor and 
weigh: deigned, eight, heinous, freightened, reindeer, sleighs, etc. (I am 
assuming that "freightened" means "loaded with stuff to carry" and is not a 
typo.)

phma