It's dwarfs, not dwarves
Just because the IMDb message board spell checker underscores a word with a red wavy line does not mean the word has been misspelled.
It could mean that it is misspelled. But it could also mean that there might be a much more [puke]politically correct[/puke] way of writing something potentially inflammatory.
For example, just try spelling the Spanish word for the English word "black", as politically combustive a word as there ever have been.
IMDb would underscore the word 'black' itself, if it weren't so ingrained in cinematic terminology as well as a potential insult.
The word 'dwarves' has similarly come under attack by [gag]PC[/gag] perfectionists, who cite the fact that ever since the very earliest of spell checkers, the word 'dwarfs' has never been marked as being potentially misspelled.... which is due to the fact that the word 'dwarf' is not just a noun which can be pluralized, but also a verb, which can be conjugated.
"That basketball player is so tall that he dwarfs all his teams cheerleaders," is a perfectly correct sentence, which is why the word 'dwarfs' never got dinged by spell checkers.
When [retch]political correctness[/retch] Nazis started marking perfectly valid words as being potentially inflammatory, somebody decided to add the word 'dwarves' to those lists of words to become less and less used, which saw little if no resistance because of the existence of the word 'dwarfs' still being used.
It makes little or no sense.
One calf, two calves. One wharf, two wharves. One knife, two knives. One wife, two wives.
Why in the world shouldn't it be one dwarf, two dwarves?
In astrophysics, dwarf stars and dwarf planets aren't lumped together into a classification called dwarfs, but dwarves, but then that isn't still referring to anything in this politically messed up world, is it?
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