RE: do you say herb or erb?

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Should we pronounce the h in herb?

yes

37% (11)

62% (18)

Total Votes : 29

(last vote on : 10/8/2012 8:14:34 PM)
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gungadin09 -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/7/2011 6:02:59 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lucylastic Herbacious is pronounced with an H Herbivore is pronounced with an H Herb is pronounced with an H Both online Merrian-Webster and Oxford dictionaries give both pronunciations. pam

dcnovice -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/7/2011 6:04:52 PM)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs5H7cgcpkg About a minute in.

KMsAngel -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/7/2011 6:05:47 PM)
i can't remember. i've lived on 3 continents and several states in the continents. i THINK i say herb, though, not 'erb. off topic, how do you say fillet? fill'ay or fill - it i say it the french way (my midwestern roots?) and EVERYbody over here looks at me blankly till i say it the other way.

DesFIP -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/7/2011 6:07:11 PM)
None of my southern relatives pronounced the H unless it was a proper name. What we have here is what Churchill described "Two nations divided by a common language".

pahunkboy -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/7/2011 6:15:29 PM)
Those other people really ought to learn how to speak proper English.

gungadin09 -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/7/2011 6:15:30 PM)
fill-ay pam

Lucylastic -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/7/2011 6:17:15 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: KMsAngel i can't remember. i've lived on 3 continents and several states in the continents. i THINK i say herb, though, not 'erb. off topic, how do you say fillet? fill'ay or fill - it i say it the french way (my midwestern roots?) and EVERYbody over here looks at me blankly till i say it the other way. My son is a chef, and he says fill'ay, Ive used it both ways:) specially when shopping for a decent knife he also says 'erb basically cos he knows its a pet peeve and he loves it when he can pisses me off.

gungadin09 -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/7/2011 6:20:11 PM)
WARNING: EVEN MORE OFF TOPIC!!! Do you pronounce "whale" differently than "wail"? pam

littlewonder -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/7/2011 6:21:23 PM)
silent H. It's what I was taught in grammar school, it's what I use. Only people I've ever heard who pronounce the H are from the U.K.

JstAnotherSub -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/7/2011 6:27:04 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: littlewonder silent H. It's what I was taught in grammar school, it's what I use. Only people I've ever heard who pronounce the H are from the U.K. After reading several of the links on the page I posted earlier, that seems to be how it is. English say the h, we over here do not. I have never heard them called (h)erbs, the only (h)erb I have ever heard of was on WKRP in Cincinnati.

Lucylastic -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/7/2011 6:27:40 PM)
How do you get to wales in a mini (how do you get two whales in a mini) one in the front, one in the back or along the m4

juliaoceania -> RE: Should we pronounce the h in herb? (6/7/2011 6:44:09 PM)
Very lightly say the "h", but I still do... just slightly though

Arpig -> RE: Should we pronounce the h in herb? (6/7/2011 6:51:56 PM)
A potentially interesting thought came to me. There's a store here in town called Herb & Spice. While everybody I know cooks with 'erbs, they buy them at (H)erb and Spice. For some reason the "H" is pronounced in the store name, even by people who don't normally pronounce it.

Aneirin -> RE: Should we pronounce the h in herb? (6/7/2011 6:57:37 PM)
See, I don't get this, you lot, well some of you over the pond often go on about our spelling of words in our own language, the use of letters that don't appear to do much as regards pronunciation, so you lot leave those letters out. For example ; UK : Honour, US : Honor etc Yet in this case, the subject of this thread, you over the pond have a letter in a word you don't use in pronunciation : h-erb becomes erb. Make your bloody minds up !

LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: Should we pronounce the h in herb? (6/7/2011 7:31:31 PM)
I always thought that it was pronounced 'erb as in the French pronunciation. But then I thought about all of the French words we Americans bastardize here, chase lounge immediately coming to mind. So I have to think that it's an affectation to set us apart from the British whose colony we once were. Like driving on the right-hand side of the street.

Edwynn -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/7/2011 8:22:35 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: gungadin09 quote: ORIGINAL: Lucylastic Proper english is Herb and erb sounds like an affectation that sounds daft and pompous(and coming from an english woman, thats saying something) "Herb" is a person. pam Indeed he is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgTp_6qG_LQ

Lucylastic -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/8/2011 4:30:13 AM)
erbie ancock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYnKWulneRk&feature=fvst

Kana -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/8/2011 4:43:34 AM)
One eats herbs, one smokes `erb.

Lucylastic -> RE: do you say herb or erb? (6/8/2011 4:45:11 AM)
that sounds just fine[;)]

flcouple2009 -> RE: Should we pronounce the h in herb? (6/8/2011 6:21:06 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Arpig A potentially interesting thought came to me. There's a store here in town called Herb & Spice. While everybody I know cooks with 'erbs, they buy them at (H)erb and Spice. For some reason the "H" is pronounced in the store name, even by people who don't normally pronounce it. Maybe that's because the Herb and Spice is like Peaches and Herb. All "reunited" and stuff.

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