Is it normal how i say herb?

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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]
    11 years ago | pl

    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
    11 years ago | pl

    In the US it is erb, in the UK it is herb (and Canada too I think).

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  • Shackleford96
    11 years ago | pl

    No, Herb is the name of an old geezer or something. It's pronounced "erb." Say it right!

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  • princesscrapbag
    11 years ago | pl

    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
      11 years ago | pl

      Just curious there princess, how do you say womb, knife, science, depot, gnat, and answer? I would love to hear you speak.

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  • Jweezee
    11 years ago | pl

    You're saying it wrong. The h is not supposed to be pronounced. Just like:
    hour
    honest
    honor
    heinous

    Okay, 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
      11 years ago | pl

      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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      • Jweezee
        11 years ago | pl

        Yes. If you'll see my post further down I said it depends where you live. When i looked it up i was using an american english reference. I guess i shouldn't have assumed the op was using american english.

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    • Gelmurag
      11 years ago | pl

      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 aardvark

      And 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
        11 years ago | pl

        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
          11 years ago | pl

          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
            11 years ago | pl

            "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
              11 years ago | pl

              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
          11 years ago | pl

          I love grammar.

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  • Waffle-Don't-Die
    11 years ago | pl

    Pizza

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  • moonlight23
    11 years ago | pl

    Do you have nostrils?

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  • Subfinmatic
    11 years ago | pl

    I'll say it as "herb" while pronouncing the "h" and there is nothing you can do about it.

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  • myownopinions
    11 years ago | pl

    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
    11 years ago | pl

    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
    11 years ago | pl

    HERPEE.

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  • dalmationUntoyourSoul
    11 years ago | pl

    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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    • disthing
      11 years ago | pl

      British pronounce the H in both 'herb' and 'hello'. Nobody really says 'ello' unless they're pretending to be a cockney geezer chimney sweep cliché (or they are a cockney geezer chimney sweep cliché).

      Ello guvna! Fancy a Rosie Lee?

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      • dalmationUntoyourSoul
        11 years ago | pl

        thanks for clearing that up. maybe the people i've heard we just softening the "h". or the could be aussie or cockney geezer chimney sweep wannabees.

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  • dom180
    11 years ago | pl

    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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    • Jweezee
      11 years ago | pl

      You're right. In the queens english it's pronounced, in american english it's not.

      NOAD gives this:

      herb |(h)ərb

      The parenthetical h indicates that it may be aspirated or omitted.

      So i guess it depends where the op lives. Where do you live op?

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  • FrancoisDillinger
    11 years ago | pl

    now that you've identified the problem, fix it.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago | pl

    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
    11 years ago | pl

    I thought you were talking about Oregano and Basil and Rosemary and things like that :/

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  • nobodyspecial
    11 years ago | pl

    the "H" is there for a reason...Herb!! lol

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  • alv1592
    11 years ago | pl

    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
    11 years ago | pl

    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
    11 years ago | pl

    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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