humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

> Roundtable wrote:
> >
> > But later on he says something about "an hair".
> >
>
> > Now I know some people love to say ERBS and OTEL instead of
> > herbs and hotel, (UGH!) (it's supposed to be upper class and
> > just sounds cockney, if you ask me)
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Lyra wrote:
>
> (Most) Americans do that, too
>
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> Herb is standard American English;
> a 1993 pronunciation survey,
> ~90% of Americans said herb without the 'h'.
> (The proper name, Herb, keeps it pronounced.)
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I worked a little at NOAA
with *HERB* Jacobowitz & IRV Ruff on *ERBE* & *ERBS*

The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment ( *ERBE* )
The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite ( *ERBS* )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Radiation_Budget_Satellite
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*HERB* , n. erb. (Webster's 1828) [OE. *HERBE*, erbe, OF. *HERBE*,
erbe, F. *HERBE*, L. *HERB*a; perh. akin to Gr. forbh` food, pasture,
fe`rbein to feed.] 1. A plant or vegetable with a soft or succulent
stalk or stem, which dies to the root EVERy year, and is thus
distinguished from a tree and a shrub, which have ligneous or hard
woody stems. 2. In the Linnean botany, that part of a vegetable which
springs from the root and is terminated by the fructification,
including the stem or stalk, the leaves, the fulcra or props,and the
hibernacle.
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The word *HERB* comprehends all the grasses, and numerous plants used
for culinary purposes.
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*HERB* is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an army",
"bright".
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Quiz Show (1994)

John Turturro ... *HERBIE* Stempel
Ralph Fiennes ... Charles Van Doren (Oxfordian)
Paul Scofield ... Mark Van Doren
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Dick Goodwin: [of Charles Van Doren] There's absolutely no need to
drag the man into the spotlight.
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Sandra Goodwin: You dragged *HERB* Stempel into the spotlight.
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Dick Goodwin: Stempel? The man has to be dragged from the spotlight
with his teeth marks still on it!
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For seventy grand, *HERB*, you can afford to be humiliated.
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*HERBIE* Stemple: You know why they call them Indians? Because
Columbus thought he was in India. They're "Indians" because some white
guy got lost.
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*HERBIE* Stemple: Come and see *HERBIE* Stempel get thrown to the
Columbia lions! Watch Charles Van Doren eat his first kosher meal in
his life.
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*HERBIE* Stemple: You wanna be worshipped? Go to India and moo.
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*HERBIE* Stemple: I love my wife, but it's like living with a plague
of locusts.
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Dan Enright: How much do they pay instructors up at Columbia?
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Charles Van Doren: Eighty-six dollars a week.
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Dan Enright: Do you have any idea how much Bozo the Clown makes?
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Charles Van Doren: Well... we, we can't all be Bozo the Clown.
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Art Neuendorffer