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[–] CidVicious 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

Discworld explanation for anything unexplainable: 'Wizard did it"