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I've always liked US English for it's admirable habit of getting rid of a number of silent letters in words, 'color' etc. So why don't you pronounce the 'h' in herbs and herbalist?

Date: 2004-02-13 07:22 am (UTC)
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Because we also lose aspirants when speaking. In some dialects, most thick THs are said as thin ones.

---L.

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Date: 2004-02-15 06:07 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
because it has a fucking H in it :)

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