Yes, that is a strange title, but notice all the ie and ei words.
Here is a familiar spelling rhyme for ie and ei.

i before e
except after c
or when sounding like a
as in neighbor and weigh

Of course there are exceptions to this rule. Here are just a few of them:
  – seize, either, weird, height, foreign, leisure, counterfeit, forfeit, neither
  – friend, conscience, science, sufficient, mischief, financier