27 Jun
2006
27 Jun
'06
9:41 p.m.
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:35 -0700, Jeremy Shaw wrote: . . .
How about heir? Also, until recently, herb and humble?
I grew up in the southern US, and I was taught 'herb' with silent 'h' but 'humble' with aspirated 'h'. With the 'h' silent 'humble' sounds very Dickensian to my ear. -- Bill Wood