LordGro
Since: May, 2010
Jul 19th 2014 at 12:59:19 PM
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It's not Inherited Illiteracy Title. 'Dwarfs' is the standard plural of 'dwarf'. 'Dwarves' has only been popularized through the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. In 1937 or before 'dwarfs' was pretty much the only plural there was.
EDIT: Checked up "dwarfs" on Wikipedia
and found this:
Modern English has two plurals for the word dwarf; dwarfs and dwarves. Dwarfs remains the most commonly employed plural. While recorded as early as 1818, the minority plural dwarves was popularized by the fiction of philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien, originating as a mistake (hypercorrection) and employed by Tolkien since some time before 1917 [...] Regarding the plural, Tolkien wrote in 1937 that "I am afraid it is just a piece of private bad grammar, rather shocking in a philologist; but I shall have to go with it".
Edited by 92.211.190.110
Let's just say and leave it at that.
Think this one might be worth keeping around, even though its technically a redirect for a misspelling, because the official title is Inherited Illiteracy Title for whatever reason, and its not something that's blatantly obvious and commonly known.
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