Je joue de la a guitar. Je ne parle pas bien le Francais.
I like English, it's my mother tounge, I like that.
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I like English, it's my mother tounge, I like that.
You'd have to be so far up yourself to scoff at regional dialects of the same language.
"Bof" is a word that I think English should adopt. It has a much deeper sense of world-weary disgust than simply saying "meh" or "hmpf".
For me, it depends on how common such a thing is in a person's normal way of speaking. A dropped "h" doesn't sound strange to me if it's used regularly. I drop just about all my "h"s, so "erb" is the way I pronounce "herb". And therefore it doesn't stand out. Similarly, someone pronouncing the "h" in "herb" would only sound strange to me if the person usually drops their "h"s.Well, of course a French person would say that.
Just kidding. French is actually my favorite foreign language. I wish I'd taken more than one year of it when I was in high school (I stopped after one year because I hated the teacher).
Yeah, "herb" with a heavy H sound just seems weird to me.
I don't think either way is wrong, BTW. It's all cool.
So, lurok, do you pronounce "enough" as "enoog-hh"?
Aw, language purists are just the cutest.
I subscribe to Picard's "this far and no further" ethos
I can't see the problem: herb (plant) is herb. Erb (nothing) is erb (still nothing).
More interested in what you pronounce it is...
but ultimately a mere digression...
Cockney, they remove the H.
(My father's a Cockney, born 1939, He's has Cockney routes.)
Apart from the rhyming slang he taught me (Well spoken man, with the gift of the gab, my Dad is.) When he reminisces to his childhood, it's stuff like
"'Ow's your belly full of spots?"
"On to the Camel"
"watch out for the moggy when driving it!"
(I know what all that means.)
Cockney Silent Hs.
'Ow
'Ouse
'Ome
'Ave
'Oo (Who)
'Ot...
(My father's a Cockney, born 1939, He's has Cockney routes.)
Apart from the rhyming slang he taught me (Well spoken man, with the gift of the gab, my Dad is.) When he reminisces to his childhood, it's stuff like
"'Ow's your belly full of spots?"
"On to the Camel"
"watch out for the moggy when driving it!"
(I know what all that means.)
Cockney Silent Hs.
'Ow
'Ouse
'Ome
'Ave
'Oo (Who)
'Ot...
I like your mother's tongue too.Je joue de la a guitar. Je ne parle pas bien le Francais.
I like English, it's my mother tounge, I like that.
You're the one who insinuates that English words must be pronounced as spelled.
So, how do you pronounce "enough"?
I can't see the problem with pronouncing it with a silence H.Aw, language purists are just the cutest.
I subscribe to Picard's "this far and no further" ethos
I can't see the problem: herb (plant) is herb. Erb (nothing) is erb (still nothing).
If you are going to be rigid about this you shouldn't be posting in a thread that is all about the ever-changing English language.
I can't see the problem with pronouncing it with a silence H.Aw, language purists are just the cutest.
I subscribe to Picard's "this far and no further" ethos
I can't see the problem: herb (plant) is herb. Erb (nothing) is erb (still nothing).
Neither do I
FYI, the British did not begin pronouncing the "h" in "herb" until the 19th Century, according to dictionary.com.
Therefore, the lack of pronunciation of the "h" is the original form, which was preserved in American English, and the pronunciation of the "h" is an aberration introduced in British English.
Therefore, the lack of pronunciation of the "h" is the original form, which was preserved in American English, and the pronunciation of the "h" is an aberration introduced in British English.
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