How do you pronounce 'herb'?

English as a Second Language Listening, speaking, pronunciation and accent
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Hole im Guljan Amiry shayan
im from Afghanistan i want learn English well but i dont know how shuold i strat the english learn

please guide me about this

thanks
Guljan

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Hi !
The results in my dictionary is /hɜb/

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In North America it’s nearly universally pronounced with a silent H. Also, the name Herb (which would be pronounced with the H as it’s short for Herbert) is not very common in the US and Canada.

In the 1980’s there was a Burger King commercial on TV which involved a character named Herb. It played off the whole herb (silent) versus Herb (pronounced) deal in a very comical way.

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Hi OxfordBlues, many thanks for your post. In addition to posting text, can you also record how you actually pronounce the word ‘herb’?[YSaerTTEW443543]

TOEIC listening, question-response: She was at the conference last year, wasn’t she?[YSaerTTEW443543]

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Do you pronounce the ‘h’ in the word ‘herb’ or is it a silent letter?

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Hi there
it is a great pleasure to hear all your voices, actually I have prepared every thing for recording my voice, but I could not make it .
I ll do my best to fulfill it
Anahid

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how to pronounce the word ‘herb’.

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Hi
I think the pronounce like her, herb and earth don´t have H.
thanks.
Ari.

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Hello Torsten,
The word herb should be pronounced with h, as in her (he:b)

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Hi,

Yes, pronounce the ‘h’, don’t drop it. Good practice for the ‘h’ is in this little ditty:

Harry went to Hampstead Heath
Harry lost his hat
Harry’s mother said to Harry;
Harry, where’s your hat?
Hanging on the hook in the hall.

But it wasn’t there at all.

Alan

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A bit late, perhaps: as far as I know, the h is usually sounded in England, but it can be either sounded or mute in America, depending on region or accent.
Compare ch in German Chemie: pronounced like k(h) in southern Germany, while Hochdeutsch/northern(?) pronunciation is as in “ich”; also sometimes pronounced as in French, like sch in “schaffen”.

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Hello Mr. Alan,
Thanks for this small ditty. please correct my mistakes in pronounciation hrere. THANK YOU1!

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Hi Maia,

Liked it. Just a couple of points. Try saying ‘hat’ again and also ‘hook’. The main thing is that you were perfectly easy to understand.

Alan

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it’s as in her

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I believe you can hear the h but just vaguely, it is not a noticeable h. please correct our mistakes . Hello Mr . Alan, a nice little pronunciation exercise you gave us . Thank you very much !

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Please listen to my recording and respond with a voice message too. Many thanks.

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hello torston :slight_smile:
this is how i pronounce it “herb”

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Hi,everybody!
I think this word should be pronounced with “h” at the beginning, but unless I miss my guess there are many words in English language, where “h” mustn’t be pronounced, aren’t there!