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.
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