The plural of "hero"

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:20 AM -0400 9/8/10, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>In the flavor of some recent messages:
>
>Having momentarily become muddleheaded in my dotage and typed
>"heros", I consulted the authority of the age (not "aged") and
>Googled.  Not checking for other meanings for obvious reasons, I
>found for "heroes" about 104,000,000 raw Web results -- but for
>"heros" about 45,600,000.  Astounding.
>
>The OED permits "heros" as the plural for the 1600s and 1700s -- but
>only 9 times through 1697 (plus once from the Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol.,
>which should have known better, and once for the sandwich).  It has
>548 quotations containing "heroes" (unfiltered for meanings other
>than the plural).
>
>Joel
>
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I'd go with "hero's" myself.

;-)

LH

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