Re: OT: Azurian.

Eugene Oh wrote:
> 2007/8/8, John Vertical <johnvertical@...>:
>> On the word itself tho, I could see some distinction between "lossed"
>> and "lost" - the former feels more like a causativ of some sort. OTOH,
>> since "lost" is one of the few exceptions to the rule of <o> being /o/
>> before /st/, there would also be some sense in adopting this as a respelling.
>> After this discussion, I might even be obliged to. :)
>>
>> John Vertical
>>
>
> 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? Because by the
> examples I can think of it isn't much of a rule-vs-exception thing
> here.
Frost vs. ghost.

> Eugene