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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Herb's herbs #49946 12/13/2001 3:33 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe Britspeakers aspirate the h in lower-case "herb," thus rendering this pair a geo-linguistically limited capitonym. PS Who's planning on joining the chat with Lederer later today? I tried it out and looks like this new Mac is up to the task, so I hope to be there. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Herb's herbs #49947 12/13/2001 4:29 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear AnnaStrophic: Here is a rather extensive site on American vs Brit pronunciation. You have to scroll way down to find it, but it does agree with you that American " erb" in Brit is "herb" http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/pronunciation.html PS I went back and looked at this site again, and found a lot of unsatisfactory things. The pronunciation guide is quite disappointing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Herb's herbs #49948 12/13/2001 5:40 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 I hope to make it home in time for the chat. I want to ask him why he didn't point out that capitonym is a subcategory of heteronyms. Herb and herb, however one pronounces them, are no more the same word than are cleave and cleave or let and let. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter #49949 12/13/2001 7:05 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Herb's herbs #49950 12/14/2001 10:07 AM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Dear Max, We aspirate the H in Herb. However, we don't in "Taste of 'Oney." Love that brass, DubDub Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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