On 14 April 2017 at 17:06, Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> wrote: > Quoting The Wanderer (2017-04-14 15:46:53) >> At a guess, probably "herb", which is commonly pronounced without the >> initial aspirant even in dialects (etc.) which ordinarily don't elide >> such. > > Thanks for educating me: I thought the "h" in "herb" wasn't silent.
In America the "h" is normally silent, but in Britain and South Africa it is normally pronounced. > A probably more common example (in computer context) is "hour". A more global example, for sure.
