What is 5'2"?

Somebody say hobbit?

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In the 19th century, and the first half of the 20th century, midget was a medical term referring to an extremely short but normally proportioned person, and was used in contrast to dwarf, which denoted disproportionate shortness. Like many other older medical terms, as it became part of popular language, it was usually used in a pejorative sense. When applied to a person who is very short, midget is now often considered offensive

The word "dwarf" has generally replaced "midget" even for proportionally short people, though the term "little person" is preferred. According to the Little People of America, dwarfism is "a medical or genetic condition that usually results in an adult height of 4 ft 10 in (147 cm) or shorter, among both men and women, although in some cases a person with a dwarfing condition may be slightly taller than that."[2]
 
I'm 5'8''....not tall, not short, average I think. My sister is a couple inches shorter than me. Our brother is 6'7'' though, and our dad is 6'4''. Our mother is only 5'4'' so I have no idea what was going on there lol!
 
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