An heroFrom WhatPort80   "An hero" is a 4chan meme. If you are upset about the phrase because you feel that it employs the article an incorrectly, you are being grammar obsessive and missing the point. Into the life of each person, there comes a time when it feels as though circumstances have spun out of control. Within the roaring maelstrom of despair and failure, the road back to tranquility seems insurmountable, and the sweet sound of oblivion beckons softly and ever more insistently. Maybe somebody has stolen your iPod. Maybe you've just brutally killed your wife and children. Maybe you just looked in the mirror. Whatever the reason, you simply need to take a deep breath, dust yourself off, and then take life into your strong, manly hands, and SQUEEEEEZE until you've wrung every last drop of lemonade out of it. Or you can kill yourself. Usage Despite the relatively rare circumstances when it is appropriate to truly label someone as an hero, the term has increasingly become a reference to suicide victims in general. Indeed, the phrase has even been extended to encompass near suicides through the phrase almost An Hero. Grammatical UsageWhile "an hero" is regarded as grammatically incorrect by some prescriptive linguists, usage of the quantifier "an" before words that started with a morpheme of the pattern CV that began with a 'h' in the onset was common usage before the 17th century:
An heroes from literatureTurandot
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