What do you think of all the things YouTube has been adding lately? The most noticeable addition they did lately is the AJAX auto suggest.
Herbs is pronounced "erbs", the H is silent. Why can't Uzbeks pronounce HC, you guys say "H" in a weird way...Mentok said:Why can't Americans pronounce herbs?
No, the h is NOT silent in herbs. Give me one other word where it's applicable. Just one.
Heir, and Honor.Mentok said:No, the h is NOT silent in herbs. Give me one other word where it's applicable. Just one.
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century colonists toward the Americas took their pronounciation with them. During the nineteenth century, the British people started to sound the first letter, in a "spelling pronunciation." So, the Americans are saying it the old fashioned way, and the Brits are playing around with their new-fangled words.
No, the h is NOT silent in herbs. Give me one other word where it's applicable. Just one.
looks like you Brits are the onlys ones that think it isnt silent...
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/herb
only accept ion is the male name Herb, where we do pronounce the "H"