dwarfs vs dwarves

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:54 AM -0700 4/14/08, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>FWIW, there are thousands of Raw Googlits for "dwarv."
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>   JL

And most of them with a denotation other than in Alison's spam
message.  Too bad, here I was thinking "dwarv" might successfully
fill a (much needed) lexical gap.

LH

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>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.
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>-Wilson
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>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.
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