dwarfs vs dwarves

[Jonathan Lighter]

FWIW, there are thousands of Raw Googlits for "dwarv."

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Too bad that you didn't open it. Now, it's going to be on my mind all
day: "make a giant out of your dwarv" what? Oh, wait. Yes, of course.
What else could it be? Never mind. Sorry 'bout that.

-Wilson

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:44 AM, sagehen wrote:
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> Subject line of spam: "Make a giant of your dwarv." Since "dwarf" isn't, on
> the face of it, a likely candidate for targetting by mail filters, I assume
> this was a simple back-formation. I didn't open the post, so don't know
> what level of English proficiency may have been on display, here.
> AM
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