shamen

[Kari Castor]

I commonly see "shaman" and "shamans" used interchangeably for plural among
World of Warcraft players (where shaman is a character class).

Even the official WoW page doesn't seem to know how to handle the word:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/shaman/

>From within the same paragraph:
<http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/shaman/>"Shaman are the
spiritual leaders of their tribes and clans."
"Shamans can wear medium armor..."



On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Mark Mandel <Mark.A.Mandel at gmail.com>wrote:

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> This is getting inhuwoman.
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> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Randy Alexander
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> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net>
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> > > And I understand shamen make extensive use of talismen.
> > > http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/runation/
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> > And of course, no shaman would be complete without a shawoman.
> >
> > From the caption under the picture:
> > "...Well, there's shaman, so why can't there be a 'shawoman'? ..."
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> > http://www.elfwood.com/~majocha/ShaWoman.3006859.html<
> http://www.elfwood.com/%7Emajocha/ShaWoman.3006859.html>
> >
> > 9580 RGHs
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