English spelling origin (OT?)

[Peter Richardson]

In these days of tension in the Middle East, it's good to remember that

neither leisure sheik seized the weird foreign height.

PR

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Steve Kl. wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Mark A Mandel wrote:
>
> > But that doesn't cover "height" or "sleight". ISTM that this exception
> > is more accurately (though less mnemonically) stated as
> >         or when followed by silent "gh"
>
> And there's always weird exceptions.
>
> -- Steve
>