Please settle a dispute

[Barman]

Of course it matters!! Team Points depend upon it!

Dwarves then... start a poll.... 

[Uncle Mort]

I'd go for dwarfs, same as the the plural for roof is roofs.

Astronomers catogerise many stars as dwarf stars. The plural is always dwarfs. Good enough for me.

[Nick]

What's the plural of thief then, Uncle, eh?

[Uncle Mort]

The Labour party.

[Nick]

 

But MIss Dibbin says thieves!

[Uncle Mort]

True it's thieves - must be to do with the pronouciation or the 'th' sound then.

[Barman]

Why don't we let Snoopy have the casting vote...?

[Nick]

Well I think it can be both dwarfs and dwarves, but dwarves seems righter

[Barman]

Well I think it can be both dwarfs and dwarves, but dwarves seems righter

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Agreed... dwarves is bestist...

[Nick]

I shall now go and tell Miss Dibbin

[Uncle Mort]

'bestist'  

[Barman]

'bestist'  

Betterer then...

[Barman]

I shall now go and tell Miss Dibbin

Is she  ?

[Uncle Mort]

'bestist'  

Betterer then...

 

[Darwins Selection]

'bestist'  

Betterer then...

That is bestest.

[fact]
'Dwarf' is of Germanic/Nordic origin, so the original plural would have been 'Dwarfen'
Usually when such words are adopted in English, the 'n' becomes 's'.
Notable exceptions are words like 'horse' which would have been expected to follow the rule of 'ox' to 'oxen' i.e. 'horse' to 'horsen' not 'horses'
[/fact]