obscurus

[fradec]

In my general review of words beginning with ob, I have indicated the hyphenation ob-scurus (plus derivatives ans compounds).

There is a dilemma here about the priority to be given between etymology and phonetic. The case is different from that of the preservation of the group sc + e (and others), as in di-scedo, for which we privileged phonetic. Here, in fact, the sound is hard and we therefore pronounce obs-curus regardless of the place of the hyphen.

So it might be better to correct patterns?

[wehro]

I am not sure, but you should consider similar cases like “ab-stare”, “di-stare”, “di-stinguo”, and “su-spicio” at the same time.

[fradec]

Those hyphenation problems are more related to the abs issue. For this question, there is a choice to do between phonetic and etymology, while st or sp are only etymological issues.

Please, note also that all the words with the sp block have already been reviewed, and so are, in principle at least all properly scored. suspicio is a compound of su(b) + specio.

However, your suggestions are good, and I would like, over times, to systematically review all occurrences of st, but it is a very big job (over 4000 words) that will take time. For the moment, the str sequence has already been validated, but there is still a lot of work.

I would also like to add systematic revisions of the words starting with the most common forms of the most common (ab, ad, in, per, ...). It's all about time.

[fradec]

I modified the patterns for obscurus by separating the s and the c when it is followed by u.

It is a choice that is made, not a strict rule. It gives two more patterns.

[fradec]

obscurus done.