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Re: Bug#860170: node-brfs -- browserify fs.readFileSync() static asset inliner



On 14 April 2017 at 17:06, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote:
> Quoting The Wanderer (2017-04-14 15:46:53)
>> 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.

In America the "h" is normally silent, but in Britain and South Africa
it is normally pronounced.

> A probably more common example (in computer context) is "hour".

A more global example, for sure.


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