From Newsgroup: alt.folklore.urban
On Monday, April 27, 1998 at 5:00:00 PM UTC+10, Maggie Newman wrote:
In article <6i29i7$d...@panix.com>, Andrew Welsh <and...@panix.com> wrote:
I feel obliged to point out here that I am led to believe (in part by a >story in yesterday's NY Times - which can be found by searching the nytimes.com
site with the string "houston dwarf council") that the appropriate term for >persons of this nature is "Dwarf".
They are two separate things. A midget is perfectly proportioned, but
small. A dwarf has a large trunk but very short arms and legs. There
are certain cranial anomalies associated with dwarfs, too, I believe.
Also their fingers are shaped smaller. I believe that all these people
now prefer the sobriquet "little people."
Maggie "no reason to live" Newman <-- no relation
I agree 100%. This is what I was taught growing up, and I would feel obliged to angrily correct someone who called me a dwarf, as I am in absolute proportion, just shrunk in the wash - like the pocket-sized MG Midget sports car.
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