Ok,  I had to abandon my first attempt and start over. But this'll work...

cat /usr/share/dict/{pr,w}* | egrep -i '^(ci|ie|[^i])*$' | sort -u

Joshua Zeidner wrote:

> ok... for the title of REGEX MASTER... exactly how many words in the 
> english language have all 'i's directly before an 'e's except after a 
> 'c'( ie. you can have an i that is not following an e as long as it is 
> after a c )?


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