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Originally Posted by Frederick Williams[_2_]
Is tea a herb? Just that, with apologies if it's not exactly OT. Oh,
there is one more thing: is 'herb' pronounced erb?
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But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it.
It's all a matter of training.
--Lord Peter Wimsey in Dorothy L Sayers' _Have His Carcase_
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I thought it was always pronounced herb, unless it be the smoking kind, in which case it is most definetly 'erb'. As in "this be some good erb mon".
yours jokingly, kris.