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[conuly]

Poll #28627

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 81

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Which of Disney's dwarfs best describes you right now?

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Grumpy
14 (20.6%)

Happy
2 (2.9%)

Sneezy
6 (8.8%)

Bashful
1 (1.5%)

Sleepy
38 (55.9%)

Dopey
6 (8.8%)

Doc
1 (1.5%)

Dwarfs? Dwarves?

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Dwarfs!
11 (14.5%)

Dwarves!
65 (85.5%)

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Comments

[alexseanchai]

I used to have a sweatshirt with Grumpy on. gift from a friend who really got me. I wore it till it fell apart and then discovered it'd probably been discontinued ten years before I was going looking for a replacement.

[julian]

If it were yesterday, then Dopey would have won out. But it's today, and I just woke up.

[redbird]

I also picked "sleepy" because it's early in the morning and the stimulants hadn't really kicked in.

[the_siobhan]

There should be once called "Achy".

[dine]

oh yes, so much this!

[siderea]

Right there with you!

[foms]

Re the barefoot article, it seems to me that, given the circles that we move in, we may share a friend:
http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/bf/

[siderea]

Re Snakes can hear you scream, new research reveals:

I'm kinda curious to know more about this accelerometer sensitive enough to tell whether sound is being transmitted through the floor as palpable vibration. Also how we know how sensitive snakes' tactile hearing is, given how hard it is to control that experiment, transmitting sound only through air or solid matter.

> (Unless they are in space, of course)

Or on a plane: poor critters aren't likely to be able to hear anything over the engines.

[conuly]

But what if a space plane cancels itself out and they can hear us again?

[fox]

(Dwarfs are very upsetting.)

[archersangel]

Dwarfs? Dwarves?

generally if the word has an F near the end then the plural becomes -ves.
wife/wives, knife/knives, shelf/shelves, etc. but the plural for the word chief is not chieves. nor is chef cheves.

spelling rules are confusing at times.

[conuly]

This isn't a spelling rule, though, it's a pronunciation rule. If you add voicing to the plural, you spell it with a v.

[thekumquat]

Dwarfs for Narnia and Discworld, dwarves for Snow White and Disney.

I can't recall Tolkien's decision.

[conuly]

Tolkien is the one who first popularized dwarves.