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*Ahem*
Herb is a guy, an I ain' eating him, not in my scrambled eggs nor nowhere else, neither.
The military "phonetic" alphabet word for H is Hotel. An we pronounces the Haitch in thatn.
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Ah, thanks, Faldage. It's the second syllable stress part of the rule I'd never heard.
But good to know it's gone by the boards, as you write, because I think 'an historical' sounds prissy and affected. I would put the phrase in the mouth of a prissy, pretentious prescriptivist.
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oh, cheers ww, or maybe just someone from a different part of the world where it is the common usage 
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a different part of the world where it is the common usage
Erb! Erb! Erb! Go to the garden and pick some erbs. We need fresh erbs for the omelettes.
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Erb! Erb! Erb!Tums or Rolaids, my poor man. 
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a different part of the world where it is the common usage
Erb! Erb! Erb! Go to the garden and pick some erbs. We need fresh erbs for the omelettes.gah, you got me bang to rights -- queen dody of double standard
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Don't worry, Queen Dody of Carthage, could be worse ~ ifn we were hypercorrecting Cockneys as mentioned by our NPIC, it coulda been "erbs fer our homelettes" 
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"I think 'an historical' sounds prissy and affected. I would put the phrase in the mouth of a prissy, pretentious prescriptivist."
I refuse to take umbrage at this statement, having matured a few decades since I titled my senior thesis,
"An Historical Review of the Theories of Phototropism." Sounded good at the time (1960) and flew through the reviewers at the University of California with no requests for revision. Of course, the reviewers were all of a scientific bent and easily intimidated by what they might have suspected was an arcane rule of grammar and spelling.
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>herb stuff<
Yet, most folks are prone to putting the "h" back for herbal. Especially when they say the name of that shampoo [non-commercial, for linguistic purposes only], Herbal Essence.
I say "medicinal 'erbs", "'erb garden," or "you got any 'erb?" But I *usually say herbal, unless I get a second to think about it first, which is rarely.
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me: But still I say 'an historical,' even if I don't write it. WW: I think 'an historical' sounds prissy and affected. I would put the phrase in the mouth of a prissy, pretentious prescriptivist. ... which you know me to be, doncha, WW? (nice alliteration, notwithstanding) you'll get yours next time I see you, young lady....
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