@Xylight When they taught you a really really important rule of the language and this rule has a little exception. Then another exception, also another exception, please add one more exception, around of applause for another exception, and another exception...
The cycle continues until you see that the "rule" should be the exception and all those "exceptions" should be the rule.
I before E, except after C. Except when your foreign neighbor Keith receives eight counterfeit sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters.