Is it normal how i say herb?
is it normal how i say herb? i no its spelled "Herb" and pronounced "Erb" but i say it with an H. i say HERD not ERB. IIN?
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[Old Memory]
Dialect is subjective. Depends where you're from. I'm more concerned that nobody caught the fact that the op used "no" in place of "know."
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anti-hero
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Shackleford96
No, Herb is the name of an old geezer or something. It's pronounced "erb." Say it right!
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princesscrapbag
It's pronounced "Herb" because it has a f**king H in it
You're just saying the word, how it is SUPPOSED to be said.
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Jweezee
You're saying it wrong. The h is not supposed to be pronounced. Just like:
hour
honest
honor
heinousOkay, that last one was a joke, don't go around saying anus. But i looked it up the right way to say the others to confirm my thoughts. And another bit of info, use "an" in front of words with a silent h, not a.
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disthing
Also British people pronounce the 'h' in herb, so it's not "saying it wrong" where I'm from. I have no idea why Americans say 'erb... it sounds very odd to us. I wonder where that comes from?
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Gelmurag
The reasoning for the "an" is because of the vowel sounds that usually follow silent h. It works for non h words also:
An apple
An asshole
An egret
an aardvarkAnd he looked at me angrily, and I knew right then he was an uneducated, insecure, fool. An idiot of the highest magnitude.
A tiskest, A tasket, A pocket with a basket.
Consonants get A, vowels get An.
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Jweezee
Seems alot of people don't know this. While we're talking about it, many Americans use the combination “an historical” with the thought that it’s actually more correct, because that’s how many folks from the UK say it. However, Brits don’t pronounce the “h” the way that Americans do. For an American, “a historical” is actually the correct usage.
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disthing
Actually you've made a mistake.
Brits (being one myself) pronounce the 'H' in historical, meaning it constitutes a consonant sound. "An historical" is never said here. "A historical" is the norm.
The only time I've ever heard "an historical" is on American television, which makes me think it's actually an American grammatical quirk.
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Jweezee
"An historic" is a venerable mistake that some people insist on preserving.
It would seem that at some point in the 1800s in Britain certain speakers started dropping the 'h' from the pronunciation of 'history', 'historic'. At least, this is the only justification for saying and writing 'an historic', 'an historical'. But these were educated people, not people speaking some regional dialect where initial 'h' was dropped regularly.This is copied and pasted from one of many websites stating that some brits do in fact drop the h.
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disthing
Well that is one of many websites that's wrong, or certainly misleading as to the prevalence of dropping the 'h' in Britain.
I never hear 'an historic' here in England, or 'an history', or 'an historical'. I never see it written that way and as I say, the only times I've noticed 'an historic' being used is in America. I can imagine some people in Northern counties like Yorkshire dropping the 'h' and saying 'an 'istoric', but that's a feature of dialect rather than the standard.
I've lived all over Britain all my life.
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Sillygoose
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Waffle-Don't-Die
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Subfinmatic
I'll say it as "herb" while pronouncing the "h" and there is nothing you can do about it.
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myownopinions
I guess. I have some trouble saying tragedy (I sometimes say tradegy). It's just a slip of the tounge for the "d" ending, though the "h" really should be silent.
...Unless HERD was a typo, then you are just like many other people who pronounce silent letters when they're not supposed to.
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RinTin
Yeah. I was thinking about this a little while ago and wondered if I was saying it right. I realized I say ninety, ninedy. It's just easier. :):)
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Dot123
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dalmationUntoyourSoul
i think british pronounce the h in "herb". but they kind of drop the h from other words like "ello". go figure. you should say what pleases you and sod all the rest. i do prefer the word herb to weed though as the latter is derogatory.
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dom180
I always say "Herb", with the "H" pronounced. It's just a dialect, neither way is right or wrong. I would say that, if anything, "Herb" is the most correct, "Queen's English", pronunciation, not "'Erb".
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FrancoisDillinger
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[Old Memory]
Where I come from with our way of speaking, we don't pronounce H at all. Just the way it is where I live.
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DannyKanes
I thought you were talking about Oregano and Basil and Rosemary and things like that :/
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nobodyspecial
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alv1592
Lol, Judith's husband on Two & a Half Men is named Herb, and I kept pronouncing it herb, as in garden herbs. I actually didn't know other countries pronounced it with the H sound...
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Oasis808
Yeah only us Americans say "erb". I am accustomed to saying "erb" even though I think herb sounds better.
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Avant-Garde
I pronounce it "Herb" (H-erb). I think I've always pronounced it like a name. I've only heard a few people call it "erb".
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