All the World's a Stage: So you want to be an Herbalist

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3-16-2009 @ 3:34AM

Tenchan said...

The Americans silence out the h and pronounce herb as 'urb', making it 'an herbalist' . Generally, if chosing between a and an, you go with speaking over writing. 'An urbalist'.

British English actually keeps the h, so there 'a herbalist' is the proper choice.

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