Will be awesome. I just wanted to make a thread since everyone else did.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Mountain Mine Moving Car Coaster
- Thread starter Rose&Crowner
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Um ok.
Who pray tell was that?
Don't go to the trouble. Ize just curous.
dstrawn9889
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it coincided with when he was going to be in the parks, rose and crowner does that.
Mastermott
Member
It is not "Dwarves", it is "Dwarfs" - that's the Disney way!
Ok, Whatever.
Have you ever seen that chart indicating the translation of when a woman says "whatever"?
jdmdisney99
Well-Known Member
I always want to say that too, but for some reason it is actually "Dwarfs" in the Snow White title and officially in this attraction.
Tom
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jdmdisney99
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englanddg
One Little Spark...
That's because Dwarfs is an acceptable, and in many ways traditional, plural for dwarf. Common usage of dwarves (and later acceptance of it) didn't come until recent years.
Go to an astronomy site, for example. They'll say "white dwarfs" not "white dwarves".
Tolkein is credited for the increased popularity of what is now the second official plural, according to Merriam Webster. He wrote in his LOTR appedix (and yes, I had to google this part):
"It may be observed that in this book as in The Hobbit the form dwarves is used, although the dictionaries tell us that the plural of dwarf is dwarfs. It should be dwarrows (or dwerrows), if singular and plural had each gone its own way down the years, as have man and men, or goose and geese. But we no longer speak of a dwarf as often as we do of a man, or even of a goose, and memories have not been fresh enough among Men to keep hold of a special plural for a race now abandoned to folk-tales, where at least a shadow of truth is preserved, or at last to nonsense-stories in which they have become mere figures of fun. But in the Third Age something of their old character and power is still glimpsed, if already a little dimmed: these are the descendants of the Naugrim of the Elder Days, in whose hearts still burns the ancient fire of Aule the Smith, and the embers smoulder of their long grudge against the Elves; in in whose hands still lives the skill in works of stone that none have surpassed.
It is to mark this that I have ventured to use the form dwarves, and so remove them a little, perhaps, from the sillier tales of these latter days.Dwarrows would have been better; but I have used that form only in the name Dwarrowdelf, to represent the name of Moria in the Common Speech:Phurunargian. For that meant 'Dwarf-delving', and yet was already a word of antique form. But Moria is an Elvish name, and given without love..."
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ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
I think the reason for the delay is the construction crew awoke the Balrog which lives under disney...