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The apostrophe to the rescue! From the wikipedia article concerning the acceptable uses of an apostrophe, one is "The marking as plural of written items that are not words established in English orthography" for example "P's and Q's"
Clearly "bro" and "ho" are not standard English, so making them plural via 's is acceptable.
Therefore, I would write it as "Bro's before ho's"
The apostrophe here makes sense as Neal points out.
However, it is so because word bro is the elided form of brother, like typo, porno or even zoo. Hence the apostrophe makes more sense here with regard to the word being elided than with the -o ending, again compare with folios, videos, trios and cellos. Inflexions in -s before a -o can lead to adding an -e- as with cargoes and volcanoes.
I don't know if there is a strict rule for the -e- infix, but in the case of elided words it seems unnecessary.
In the end dictionaries show bro can become bros in the plural. It might just be a matter of style or an orthography in transition. The beautiful thing about living languages, is that you take part in their making. So the choice is yours I would say.
The colloquial word for friend, pal, originally comes from Angloromani Phal, which comes from Romani Phral, which comes from Sanskrit bhrātṛ, which comes from Proto-Indo-European **bʰréh₂tēr (*meaning brother)
Hello everyone! There is a Spanish word "hermano", which means "brother". The dictionary says that the word comes from the Latin "germanus" - brother, fraternal. I couldn't find the etymology of the word "germanus". However, there is a homonym word "germanus" with a logical translation of "German" (etymology is not specified too). The question is strange, but sometimes strange things are possible in etymology. Please tell me if there is anything in common between the word "hermano" and a "germanus" with the meaning "German". Or are these two words just homonyms in Latin and the word "German" in Latin isnt connected with the word "brother" in Spanish?
My English isn't very good, I hope you will understand my question. Thank you very much)