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I was there, 3000 years ago. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Dwarrows

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah I recall reading that he later said he wished he had gone with dwarrow since it's an older root word.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He could have just written a story about how a wizard changed the word.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Discworld explanation for anything unexplainable: 'Wizard did it"