"It's not 'no-mee,' Xuld, 'it's 'no-em!"
"Scuses me! Nooooo-ehhhhhm, then," says the first mite, ostensibly a male(?) named Xuld. "You take'a the noooo-eeeehhm way, then wesa' takkin'!"
"They're talking about me," says Lini to Beltin, "a 'gnome.' Mites hate gnomes and dwarves. They even have a laughable martial art for fighting against my people."