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Just idle curiosity: here (the UK) the H at the beginning of Herbal is practically always pronounced as such, and so "a herbal" is the usual form. Indeed, my Oxford Reference Dictionary gives only this pronunciation. Do Americans pronounce the word as "Erbal"? Loganberry (Talk) 14:57, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

No, but Brazilians do 8-). Thanks... Jorge Stolfi 06:32, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
The H is usually silent in American English, though I think there's a few dialects that pronounce it.[1] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by NickelShoe (talkcontribs) 04:35, 23 December 2006 (UTC).