Why don’t Americans pronounce herb with an /h/?
Why don’t Americans pronounce herb with an /h/?
It turns out that the American pronunciation is the original one! The word herb was borrowed from Old French erbe ‘grass, herb, animal feed’ around 1300, at which point neither English nor French pronounced (or spelled it) with an /h/.
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