Your holiday elf lesson

Courtesy That Other Paper  Fri, 11/30/2007 - 11:23am

photo / Paul KeleherELFS, not ELVES! 

Since it’s the holiday season, I feel compelled to share with the world an important piece of information I learned today, something I feel ashamed for not knowing: there is a distinction between elfs and elves.

The pluralization is all-important — elves indicates human-sized creatures like Legolas, while elfs indicates the tiny creatures, like the Keebler Elfs or Santa’s Elfs.

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