Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> writes: > The Wanderer wrote: >> At a guess, probably "herb", which is commonly pronounced without the >> initial aspirant even in dialects (etc.) which ordinarily don't elide >> such.
> *shudder* In en_US, maybe... I'm an en_US speaker and pronounce the "h", fwiw. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>