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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (614312)	6/2/2011 2:07:15 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1576159

"right. i before e except after c." And sometimes 'th'... English borrows so many words from so many languages, it is hard to keep track sometimes. And this is one of them. 'Wiener' derives from 'Vienna'(or a resident thereof) or at least the German spelling of it with their stupid v/w substitution. I say stupid, because this is a relatively recent change, like the f/w one. Just a couple of centuries ago, Vater was spelled Fater and generations of German schoolkids have suffered because of it...