We have a little bit of a pattern  study, I'm going to call it this week  

and it's this o s t ending. How do you say it?

You have two options um I also added a few other  words here that are spelled a little differently  

but you have the same pronunciation pattern.  Okay, so let's start with the general  

rule. So we've been talking the last few weeks  about these o exceptions in closed syllables,  

typically, we would think that this pattern  would be pronounced with the short o the oh  

and would be ost. We do have this in the  word lost and in cost but there are times,  

and this is very common, when we have  ost or we're going to say a long o.  

And that would be in the words most, host,  post, and ghost. Typically we see this long  

o pattern spelled with two vowels  the o a and we'd hear this in coast,  

roast, and toast. Okay so how do we do this  for this short oh. We're going to open our  

mouth wide. Tip of the tongue is low, back of  the tongue is pulled high up, move to the s.  

Air is continuously moving out of the mouth.  Tongue is behind or just pointed down to the  

bottom of the mouth. It is not touching the teeth  and then we're going to touch the teeth for that t  

and air just puffs out. ost ost ost lost cost

Now if we have this long o  pattern, we're going to say o.  

Open the mouth and then move to a pucker.  Tongue moves from low um in the front to  

just flat in the middle of the mouth and  then add that s touch the teeth for the t. 

host most host post ghost

The more common spelling pattern would be this  

o-a-s-t and we hear that  in coast, roast, and toast.

So again this ost we have a lot of exceptions  to this closed syllable spelling pattern.  

Most people would think that it is  pronounced with this oh and we do  

have that in very common words like lost  and cost. But you can have the exceptions  

and you can have the long o in most, host,  post, and ghost. And then we have the same ost  

but more likely spelled with o-a-s-t and  we see this in coast, roast, and toast.

So give it a try I know people are  going to notice the difference. If  

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