Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Special status of < st > in English

  • French loan words: coast, feast, roast (no shortening)
  • Native words: most, east (no shortening)
  • breast, blast (shortened)
  • priest, beast (no shortening)
  • Eustace, Houston (no shortening)

Posted by blaoism at 8:57 PM
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