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Words ending in I, e, drop the e, and change the I to y before adding i-n-g.

8 seconds sound clip from the A Boy Named Charlie Brown movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:35:30.662 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- Boy, you really did it. You were great. You're our class champion.

- You didn't think I could do it, did you? But I did it.

- And tomorrow you'll represent our class in the all-school spelling bee.

- I'm going home and really bear down. I'm going to study the whole dictionary.

- This is one rule I must remember: 'I before e, except after c. Or when sounded like a, as in 'neighbor' and 'way.'

- Words ending in I, e, drop the e, and change the I to y before adding i-n-g.

- I before e, except after c. Let's see. I before e, except after h. No, I after e after c. 'I before e after... No, e before I after c.

- When a word has a c for an ending, like frolic, or colic, or comic, and mimic, and picnic, you always add a k before appending. You know, sticking an e, or I, or y. For example, colicky, frolicker, picnicker, mimicker, and hickory, dickory, docker.

- 'On the other hand, if softness is maintained,' page 43, 'then e must be retained after c.' -You mean, before the ending 'able'?

- Right, that keeps the spelling stable.

- So that's why.

- Of course. Let's try.

- Noticeable, serviceable, embraceable, replaceable, embraceable, replaceable, peaceable, enforceable, peaceable, enforceable, pronounceable, and traceable, pronounceable, and traceable.

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A Boy Named Charlie Brown Sound Clip

A Boy Named Charlie Brown PosterAudio clips of funny lines and quotes from A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969).

Actors: Peter Robbins (Charlie Brown), Pamelyn Ferdin (Lucy van Pelt), Glenn Gilger (Linus van Pelt), Erin Sullivan (Sally Brown)

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