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From: sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen)
Subject: Re: When did dwarves come into use?
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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 04:40:34 GMT
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In article <aldersonCxMG7r.5rt@netcom.com>,
Richard M. Alderson III <alderson@netcom.com> wrote:
>In article <sarimaCxLFK6.4y2@netcom.com> sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen)
>
>>When did the voiced form first appear, and when did it become common?
>
>1937.  Late 1960s.
>
>Or so my reading of Tolkien's appendices would lead me to believe...

That is, indeed, what I was trying to check out.

Mainly I am checking to make sure there are no clear counterexamples.

It is interesting that your response and the one letter I got both
cited Tolkien.  This suggests that this is indeed the origin of that
variant.  (Another data point in its favor is that the Disney movie
used the standard "dwarfs").

The reason this came up is that in a book on historical linguistics
by Hock, he cites this as an example of anology based on "elves",
with no mention made of Tolkien.

I have been considering writing him a letter pointing out the
Tolkien appendices.
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