On 2017-04-14 at 09:34, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:13:40AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 08:59:30AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>>> (or the letter h followed by a vowel) >> >> A hat, a hotel. a helmet. Unless the speaker has a dialect where >> they're an hat ("an 'at"), etc. It seems Cockney is one such >> dialect. > > Yes, you're right of course. I was thinking of a specific example > (don't remember which one anymore) where the word was *written* with > an H at the start, but the H was not pronounced; I just wrote it > down incorrectly. At a guess, probably "herb", which is commonly pronounced without the initial aspirant even in dialects (etc.) which ordinarily don't elide such. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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