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
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