Rules...

It’s ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’.

Except that it’s not.

Author Mark Forsyth found 44 words where this rule is true, and 923 where it’s not - words like these eight : being, neighbour, their, foreign, science, weigh, inaccuracies.

I wonder, what other ‘rules’ are you following that a little bit of research could disprove…?