Steve McIntyre <steve@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 (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>