Seizing on exceptions

SIR – No wonder Peter Owen (Letters, February 17) disputes the “i before e except after c” spelling aid. He omits half of the rule: “When it sounds like ee, it’s i before e, except after c”.

Thus words like foreign, neighbour, feisty, beige and the diphthong in being are not affected, as they don’t sound like ee. Giles Darling

Cuckfield, West Sussex