The plural of "hero"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/8/2010 04:22 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>I'd go with "hero's" myself.
>
>;-)

You might also have to go back a few
centuries.  See the last spelling in the OED's
spellings:  "Pl. heroes
({sm}h{shti}{schwa}r{schwa}{shtu}z). Forms: 6-7
heros, heroë, 6-8 heroe, 7- hero; pl. 4-7 heroës, 7- heroes (7 hero's)."

And there are 6 actual instances from 1650 through 1719.

Joel

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