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English: Entry for "Herb" from Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, (1833 edition, published by Tegg of London), providing evidence that the author "suppress[ed] the sound of the h in this word" -- a pronunciation that later would come to be regarded as characteristically American.
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Source https://archive.org/details/criticalpronounc00walkiala/page/246
Author John Walker, A critical pronouncing dictionary and expositor of the English language, p. 247. London: Tegg, 1833 [first ed. 1791]

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