(H)umble (was: Some data on herb, /hw-/)

Peter A. McGraw pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU
Thu Feb 1 01:01:02 UTC 2001


That's funny--I have a relative in Texas who worked for the "Umble" oil
company for many years.

--On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 10:16 AM -0600 Natalie Maynor
<maynor at CS.MSSTATE.EDU> wrote:

> Am I the only person left who pronounces h-less "humble"?  With the
> h, I think it's an oil company -- or at least used to be.



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu



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