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Should we pronounce the h in herb?

yes

37% (11)

62% (18)

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RE: Should we pronounce the h in herb? - 6/8/2011 6:26:08 AM

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Pronounce the H in Herb?

'ELL NO!

Note to DesFIP... Damnit all to 'ell, ya beat me to it!

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RE: Should we pronounce the h in herb? - 6/8/2011 8:31:35 AM

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Oops... I meant DC, not Des.

(Murphy's law of the Edit button strikes again!)

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RE: Should we pronounce the h in herb? - 6/8/2011 8:36:22 AM

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Yes of course.

One should always pronounce the "aitch" in "Herb".

It's only propper.

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RE: do you say herb or erb? - 6/8/2011 8:38:41 AM

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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.

"Fillit", unless you're French, continental European/pretentious... or just plaine wrong.

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RE: do you say herb or erb? - 6/8/2011 9:49:13 AM

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RE: do you say herb or erb? - 6/8/2011 11:05:11 AM

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It's all mine!

(well... used by another, but hey!)

here's the big question though:
why on earth was this thread moved from ... oh, hang on, now I see..... Polls & Other discussion!
This was a Y/N poll wasn't it?

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RE: do you say herb or erb? - 6/20/2011 10:42:15 AM

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Dropping the h's is a fashion which has appeared fairly recently in various places - such as parts of London, as many English people may know.
Since it is not that old (maybe post WW II) it is not easy to predict whether it may fall out of fashion again soon or spread further. Since a pronounced "h" is rare in English anyway and can only occur at the beginning of the word, it might disappear sooner or later, like so many once pronounced "gh"s ...
(sound as in Scottish loCH)

my advice: keep it ... it might help learning other languages for instance, since many have that "h" in various grades of pronounciation
however, some don't, like Spanish

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