http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/bigenough/special_dwarfism_ety.html

The Etymology of Dwarfism

“Before we started attending LPA meetings, my wife Barbara and I would have guessed that dwarf and “midget” were equally offensive, and that little person, a term with which we were vaguely aware, was probably the most acceptable. It turns out to be a whole lot more complicated than that.”