Herb

Tamil infrared:
[nq:1]Do we pronounce 'herb' with the 'h' sound when it's a person's name?[/nq]
It depends on where you live. In Australia, for example, city people tend to retain the 'h', but there are plenty of rural people with names like 'Arry and 'Erbert and 'Arvey.
For the plant the rules are simpler. In America you drop the 'h', everywhere else you pronounce it.

Peter M

[nq:1]Do we pronounce 'herb' with the 'h' sound when it's a person's name?[/nq]
Who's "we"?
There's a great recording of a 1963 concert in
Antibes (France) by the Miles Davis Quintet in
which the announcer introduces the pianist as
Airbee Ancoque*.
My family's version of American English didn't
pronounce the "h" in "herb". I find that most
Australians not only do pr

[nq:2]Do we pronounce 'herb' with the 'h' sound when it's a person's name?[/nq]
[nq:1]Who's "we"? There's a great recording of a 1963 concert in Antibes (France) by the Miles Davis Quintet in which the announcer introduces the pianist as Airbee Ancoque*.[/nq]
That's France, they never heard an 'h' that was fit to pronounce.
[nq:1]My family's version of American English didn't pronounce

Bill Bonde:
[nq:1]Eddie Izzard has a quick bit on that.[/nq]
And that would be ..?

Michael West

[nq:1]Do we pronounce 'herb' with the 'h' sound when it's a person's name?[/nq]
Americans pronounce the H in "Herbert" and the associated nickname "Herb."

Best wishes Donna Richoux

[nq:1]My family's version of American English didn't pronounce the "h" in "herb". I find that most Australians not only do pronounce it, but think I'm trying to speak French when I say it the way I was taught.[/nq]
Most of us 'Mericans pronounce "herb" (not the name) without /h/. There are a few latter-day speakers who seem to be voicing (STS) the , but that has to be considered either ignoran

[nq:1]Do we pronounce 'herb' with the 'h' sound when it's a person's name?[/nq]
If it's a person's name, we write it with a capital letter.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: s

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[nq:2]* Herbie Hancock[/nq]
[nq:1]He used to be a great jazz musician, did he not?[/nq]
Used to be? When did he stop being great?

Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 21 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs)

[nq:1]On 20 May 2004, Areff wrote[/nq]
[nq:1]snip[/nq]
[nq:2]He used to be a great jazz musician, did he not?[/nq]
[nq:1]Used to be? When did he stop being great?[/nq]
Sometime between Tet and Watergate? Actually, I have never attempted to greatly familiarize myself with his post-Tet music. All must agree that his greatest work was pre-Tet.

[nq:1]On 20 May 2004, Areff wrote[/nq]
[nq:1]snip[/nq]
[nq:2]He used to be a great jazz musician, did he not?[/nq]
[nq:1]Used to be? When did he stop being great?[/nq]
I like the quote from his official web site:
"Don't be afraid to try things... " HH
It sounds a bit like he's gone ballistic:
"As he enters his fifth decade of professional life, Herbie Hancock