Laud was known to be touchy about his diminutive stature. His fellow students bear similarly diminutive names. Others wore traditionally feminine clothing and assumed a more diminutive role as femmes. Nouns with irregular plurals tend to have the same irregularity in the diminutive as well. "-erl" suffix can replace almost any usual German diminutive. The Rangers help to guard the Shire, inhabited by the diminutive hobbits. Lithuanian also has a very rich word derivation system and an array of diminutive suffixes. Her nickname "Nastia" is a Russian diminutive for Anastasia. Neil Bartlett characterised her performances as "dressed and sounding exactly like a diminutive Bowie". The word also means a gable with no diminutive sense. Often formative infixes and suffixes look like diminutive ones. The term comes from a 1940s humorous diminutive of foot. The term "diminutive" is often used to describe the character's height. She is a Munchkinlander of diminutive size. They are comparable to the diminutive suffixes and of Mandarin.