The English seem to be famous fo rdropping the “h” off of words, while Americans tend to keep’em. Except with HERB. Here its reversed. What’s the dope?
Well, I had an Australian and a Scot tell me that 'erbal tea was a mispronounciation, that the “H” should be heard.
Yep, that’s right. It should be heard. I’m not sure why Americans do pronounce it without the H, but it always sounds very strange to me.
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I agree. Herb does sound better than urb.
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Spose you could call it Peaches and Urb or Peaches and Herb, but either way it sounds stupid.
If I had the name Herbert, I would rather is be spoken as Herbert not Urbert.
We Americans are weird.
Or you could say you’re French and pronounce it
aye-BEAR (Herbert)
There are a few other words like that. I can think of ‘honor’ and ‘heir’. I don’t pronounce the h sound. Are those Americanism? What about the letter ‘aych’, should it be pronounced ‘haych’?
For “haitch” vs “aych”, in Aus the former is regarded as a less classy pronunciation. If I can say so without intending to cause offence, it is also popularly regarded as being a predominantly Catholic-based pronunciation, maybe from the schools the Church runs.
Oh you say tomayto and I say tomahto…