Talk:vast

the vast majority

The percent of the time a majority is described as "vast" has increased steadily over time. This ngram, manipulated so that recent use of "majority" and "vast majority" are on the same level, shows how they were previously not on the same level at all. - -sche (discuss) 19:11, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Romani etymology

Romani preserved the "ṣṭ", as you can see from the description of my edit. The "st" is also preserved in "vast". Romani lost the "st" at the beginning of a word, as in "thulo", from Sanskrit "sthūla". "ṣ" is a dental, so it is more probably for it to be lost than the "s". But it hadn't been lost, so I think that "st" is preserved in "vast". ManFromSuceava (talk) 08:12, 23 June 2019 (UTC)