Re: OT: Azurian.

On 8/8/07, Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> wrote:
> 2007/8/8, John Vertical <johnvertical@...>:
> >
> > "lost" is one of the few exceptions to the rule of <o> being /o/
> > before /st/
>
> This is interesting; I'd never thought about that before. So on the
> one hand we have lost, cost, dost (archaic of course), and on the
> other we have most, post, host. What else is there?
"ghost" came to mine when I tried to think of examples.

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>