The Sunday Post (Newcastle)

THE SEVEN DWARFS

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In the fairy tale Schneewitt­chen, the Brothers Grimm tell how Snow White shelters in a cottage with seven dwarfs but doesn’t name them, but later adaptation­s did:

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1912 Broadway play) Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick, Quee

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937 Disney film) Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, Dopey* Schneewitt­chen (2009 German TV film)

Gorm, Knirps, Niffel, Quarx, Querx, Schrat, Wichtel Snow White And The Huntsman (2012 feature film)

Beith, Muir, Quert, Coll, Duir, Gort, Nion, Gus

* Other names that Disney considered include Awful, Biggy, Chesty, Dirty, Flabby, Gloomy, Hotsy, Jumpy, Lazy, Nifty, Puffy, Shifty, Thrifty and Wistful

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