On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:35 -0700, Jeremy Shaw wrote:
   . . .
> How about heir? Also, until recently, herb and humble?

I grew up in the southern US, and I was taught 'herb' with silent 'h'
but 'humble' with aspirated 'h'.  With the 'h' silent 'humble' sounds
very Dickensian to my ear.

-- Bill Wood


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