Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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Why wasn't it "Smurves"?
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This is even weirder: The plural of "Dwarf" is "Dwarves" but when astronomers pluralize it, (as in the sense of a white dwarf star) they always call them "White Dwarfs." I have never spoken to anyone who knows why this is.
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