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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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But when you're talking about a single herb,
Some people prefix with "an" and drop the H - "an erb" - easier to say than "a herb", I guess. Pretty lazy really. But that's not written, it's just a silent "h", like the "p" in "bath".
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:13, 2 replies)
I pee noisily in my bath.

(I helped save b3ta! flake has nothing against your right leg, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:23, closed)
Hooray! :-D

(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 13:03, closed)
I find it odd that some H words get an "an" in front of them
like "an hotel"

I blame the french
(I helped save b3ta! Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:23, closed)
Well
the French do make the distinction between hard H and soft H so you can write l'herisson, but le hibou.
(Smale is stuffed, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:43, closed)
You can't write "l'hérisson".
It's "le hérisson", "le hibou", "le homard, "la Haute Loire", etc.. You *can* say "l'hôtel", "l'hôpital", "l'heure", etc..
(I helped save b3ta! .Yeti., Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:54, closed)
Oh darn
I knew there was a difference and picked the wrong word
(Smale is stuffed, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:57, closed)

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