Quoting The Wanderer (2017-04-14 15:46:53) > On 2017-04-14 at 09:34, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:13:40AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 08:59:30AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > >>> (or the letter h followed by a vowel) > >> > >> A hat, a hotel. a helmet. Unless the speaker has a dialect where > >> they're an hat ("an 'at"), etc. It seems Cockney is one such > >> dialect. > > > > Yes, you're right of course. I was thinking of a specific example > > (don't remember which one anymore) where the word was *written* with > > an H at the start, but the H was not pronounced; I just wrote it > > down incorrectly. > > At a guess, probably "herb", which is commonly pronounced without the > initial aspirant even in dialects (etc.) which ordinarily don't elide > such.
Thanks for educating me: I thought the "h" in "herb" wasn't silent. A probably more common example (in computer context) is "hour". - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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