The ‘h’ in ‘ghost‘ is a historical hiccup. William Caxton, having first practised his trade in Flanders, brought Flemish typesetters back to England to help set up his printing press - they lobbed an ‘h’ into English ‘gost’ because their own native word was ‘gheest’.
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Replying to @susie_dent
And we dropped the 'h' and you guys kept the damn thing...
4:51 AM - 31 Oct 2017
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