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Re: USAGE: Language revival

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Thursday, November 25, 1999, 20:59
At 5:56 pm -0700 24/11/99, Ed Heil wrote:
>It is a great pleasure to find myself agreeing with Nik; we often seem >to be at odds over minor things. BTW, Nik, the most famous use of >"Dwarfs" is after "Snow White and the Seven". :)
....which, Tolkien tells us, is why he coined the plural "dwarves" - he didn't want his dwarves to be confused with Disney's dwarfs. That Nik doesn't recall coming across 'dwarfs' says much about Tolkien's influence :) Ray. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================