The plural of "hero"

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Which reminds me: does anyone know of software that will translate the OED's
> characterizations (so to speak) into Unicode?
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> m a m
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> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> At 9/8/2010 04:22 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:You might also have to go back a
>> few
>> centuries. Â See the last spelling in the OED's spellings: Â "Pl. heroes
>> ({sm}h{shti}{schwa}r{schwa}{shtu}z).
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