On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Tom Wier wrote:
> Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
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> > Another
> > example, as noted by Tolkien: If people had had occasion to talk about
> > dwarfs every day, the plural would probably still have been dwarves.
>
> I don't think I've heard people say "dwarfs" any more than I've heard
> people say "leafs"... where'd you get that?
>
It threw me for a loop, and no mistake. I'd only ever heard "dwarfs" as a
verb. "The skyscraper dwarfs the house next to it" sort of thing. Same
with "leafs" and "roofs", both are verbs in my book.
Padraic.
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