I think Americans generally do not pronounce the H in “herb”, while the British usually do pronounce it.
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That’s why I chose it 
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Tbh it depends on the context and what the writer wants to do
There’s an interesting similar situation in Latin.
You could use ab (from) before any word, but you could also use the form a if the next word did not begin in a vowel or H. This, by Vsotvep’s logic, suggests that a Latin writer who wrote, for instance,
Iúdaeí ab haréná exstitére (the Jews arose from the desert)
may have been thinking of harena as having a silent H. And indeed, it did have an H-less form arena which is the ancestor of our English word. Or, H could have been thought of grammatically as not a consonant but a “rough breathing”, under the influence of Greek theory.
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Just use ã as universal indefinite article and let the readers decide.
By the way, have you ever wondered why the French word for unicorn is le licorne?
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TOPICS/POLLS INDEX
There have been a lot of topics and questions discussed on this thread, so I thought I would make a wiki index. Is there any way a mod can edit this into my OP? I can’t seem to do that.
Open Faced Sandwich discussion
The First Poll Game (tied result)
Which option chosen the most?
2/3 of the average
How many holes in a straw
Smallest number you can pick without anyone else picking it
Map projections
# sign discussion
Hikaru no Go and Go pronounciation
Delivery and Take-out/Take-away
Data singular or plural
Octopus plural
Bigfeet
Cool Gadgets
Scaling animals up
More pluralization discussion
Names of Chinese/Japanese go players
Mulan 2020
Comparing English to other languages
Cringey/cringy/cringier/more cringey/cringy
Mannequin challenge
Favorite cake
Heroic death
Returning artifacts to country of origin
Historical players
Groin’s username
Not knowing if you’re right
Shallots/scallops/scallions
Poison and Venom
1000 posts
Typing/writing, and pencil and pen discussion, and how English is confusing
Ways of relaxing
Time traveller’s paradox
Plural of staff, and other discussions about English
More hole questions
Singular of pasta
Sitewide Christmas tournament
U-nouns and H-nouns
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For those of you also taking Game Theory, your grade in that class will be based on how close your grade on this exam is to 80% of the average.
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My daughter has this singing coffee cup.
One song goes, “One sip for you. Two sips for me. Three sips for each of us. 1-2-3.”
What is being sipped?
- The singing cup
- Some other cup
- Two or more cups, including the singing cup
- Two or more cups, not including the singing cup
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The line, “Two sips for me,” refers to
- Cannibalism
- Self-cannibalism
- Neither
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How many sips are there?
- 3
- 6
- 9
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The first question is different in post-covid era, since no cups should be shared. Gone are the cup-sharing early years.
The second question was answered keeping context in mind and being a good person.
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I think there are 9 sips in total.
1 for you
2 for me
Then, 3 more each for both of us
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You should read Zhuangzi 莊子 book Tao Te Ching 道德經.
It goes like this one.
“The Debate on the Joy of Fish”[edit]
The story of “The Debate on the Joy of Fish” is a well-known anecdote that has been compared to the Socratic dialogue tradition of ancient Greece.[18]
莊子與惠子遊於濠梁之上。莊子曰：儵魚出遊從容，是魚樂也。
Zhuangzi and Huizi were enjoying themselves on the bridge over the Hao River. Zhuangzi said, “The minnows are darting about free and easy! This is how fish are happy.”惠子曰：子非魚，安知魚之樂。莊子曰：子非我，安知我不知魚之樂。
Huizi replied, “You are not a fish. How do you know that the fish are happy?” Zhuangzi said, “You are not I. How do you know that I do not know that the fish are happy?”惠子曰：我非子，固不知子矣；子固非魚也，子之不知魚之樂全矣。
Huizi said, “I am not you, to be sure, so of course I don’t know about you. But you obviously are not a fish; so the case is complete that you do not know that the fish are happy.”莊子曰：請循其本。子曰汝安知魚樂云者，既已知吾知之而問我，我知之濠上也。
Zhuangzi said, “Let’s go back to the beginning of this. You said, How do you know that the fish are happy; but in asking me this, you already knew that I know it. I know it right here above the Hao.”— Zhuangzi, chapter 17 (Watson translation)[25]
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What are these?
- Just Tyrannosaurus
- Some / a group of Tyrannosaurus (adding a pluralising word)
- Tyrannosaurus adults (adding a generic noun)
- Tyrannosauruses (standard Engish plural)
- Tyrannosaurs (but this could refer to other genera)
- Tyrannosauri (Latin second declension)
- Tyrannosaurūs (Latin fourth declension)
- Tyrannosauroi (Greek)
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In my experience, Tyrannosaurus and Tyrannosaurs are most common.
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The answer depends on context.
1 for you + 2 for me + 3 * the number of attendees = 3 * (the number of attendees + 1)
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Now that I think about, I actually like Tyrannosaurūs – it’s a nice compromise between English and Latin.
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I don’t.
What’s your preferred shogi piece icon?
- Two kanji
- One kanji
- Chess symbols
- Movement indicators
- Other
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- noone
- no-one
- no one
- noöne
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none
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- Julius Varus
- Jūlius Vārus
- Július Várus
- Julius Uarus
- Jūlius Uārus
- Július Uárus
- Iulius Varus
- Iūlius Vārus
- Iúlius Várus
- Iulius Uarus
- Iūlius Uārus
- Iúlius Uárus
- Write every U as V
- Other
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- Honinbo
- Honinbō
- Hon’inbo
- Hon’inbō
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