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hellofaniceguy
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Just to change the herb/erb.....Herb...short for Herbert or erbie as in Herbie. (I don't know...going through life with a name like Herb...Herbert or Herbie, the love bug...)
Colonel Sanders always said "11 Herbs and spices!"
Stick with using the H in Herb...I thinks most of the English speaking population also use the herb vs erb. |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| My English professor said it is now proper to write an before any h word written. People just don't do it. |
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keithinkorea
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:10 am Post subject: |
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| It's always written as herb. |
Of course. People are missing my fundamental question, so I'll rephrase it for the comprehensionally challenged or maybe just distracted.
Would an American English speaker ever WRITE in the sense of writing and not speaking or even portaying regional accents 'AN HERB'. |
This is the thing I don't get. Somebody doesn't give you the answer you're looking for so you've got to slip an insult in there. It's this kind of childish *beep* that annoys the hell out of me. You wrote the question poorly by asking if anyone writes "an erb". I answer the poorly written question by saying "everybody writes herb", thereby saying that "an erb" is not something that anyone would write over here.
I don't know where I'm supposed to make this magical link between the first question you asked and what you were implying, and to be twattish about it is further dumbfounding me. If you screw up your question, doesn't it seem silly to get all holier-than-thou afterwards? I don't come to this forum to insult or to be insulted, and I try my damnedest to ensure that I don't make snide remarks about other posters when I post.
To answer your NEW question, I would write "an herb", because it's pronounced "erb" in the U.S. Most Americans back home most likely don't fully grasp how a/an really works so you will get varied results. |
Chillout mate!  Calm down a bit! Not insulting you everyone just ended up talking about pronunciation rather than what I was honestly enquiring about. I did in the original post say that I 'saw' it written in a Korean English language paper and it looked weird to me.
I was not being snide, I was just trying to be lighthearted in my own strange way. It was a genuine question and you helped me clear it up in my mind with your explanation for which I thank you. There are subtle differences between British and American English and though I prefer British being a Brit, I have every respect for well spoken intelligent people with any flavour of English.
'An herb' just looks weird to me, as the original British version of 'aluminium' looks mystifying to many Americans who use the contracted version varient 'aluminum'.
Please don't get your knickers in a twist mr or mrs Z no offense was intended. |
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