Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, Checkers! We bring you another fun and fact-filled show to digest alongside that slice of pumpkin pie. First, Darren looks at the history of abortion laws in Canada after a listener points out that our collective perception on a previous show was false. Cristina ponders how useless the long-standing spelling rule, “I Before E, Except After C” actually is. Finally, Adam investigates whether Twitter is shadowbanning some users, as they have recently been publicly accused of doing.
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Abortion Law In Canada
Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada
I Before E, Except After C?
Washington Post: I Before E, Except after C is a Giant Lie
YouTube: QI Series 8 Ep 14 Hocus Pocus Preview – BBC One
Merriam-Webster: I Before E Except After C
Does Twitter Shadowban Users
What Is a ‘Shadow Ban,’ and Is Twitter Doing It to Republican Accounts? – New York Times
Twitter Is Not ‘Shadow Banning’ Republicans – NY Mag
Setting the record straight on shadow banning – Twitter dot com
Hi folks.
My understanding of the “I before E” rule was that it pertained to words that sounded like “ee,” as in “receive” and “believe,” not *all* words that contain and “I” and an “E.” So the rule would not be appropriate for words like “albeit” and “forfeit.”
Maybe my understanding was wrong, but I wonder if that would skew the statistics you found?
Love the show!
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