Talk:Herbal

Pronunciation
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. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by NickelShoe (talk • contribs) 04:35, 23 December 2006 (UTC).

A[n]
This may be unprecedented in Wikipedia (but all things were at some point), but I changed it to A[n] so as to compromise between the two pronunciations of "herbal" in text format that is at least used. To many people "a herbal" is a typo and will begin an edit war. While my solution may appear a bit messy, it is not unusual to see brackets [] in text and is the best solution in my opinion. I await the establishment to undo my revision and denounce me as a moron without giving a moment to think about the practicality of my solution.--Metallurgist (talk) 00:56, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, is that what's going on. I'd noticed the changes at Voynich manuscript, and was wondering what was going on, that people kept changing the "an" to "a". Maybe I'll check to see if the sentence can be recast, to avoid the problem. --Elonka 21:12, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Rewrite
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 * Done - the rewrite has now beeen up for several weeks.  Granitethighs  02:24, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

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Homeopathy?
"Herbals have seen a modest revival in the western world since the last decades of the 20th century, as herbalism and related disciplines (such as homeopathy and aromatherapy) became popular forms of alternative medicine.[9]"

What does homeopathy have to do with this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.73.79.175 (talk) 12:08, 19 November 2017 (UTC)