What means Zoyd?

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 3 14:50:41 CDT 2003


Boy I'm a slow reader offline. Hope I can keep up.

In the first chapter of VL, I was saying to myself,
"zoyd means something, doesn't it." By the second
chapter, I remembered android and then freakazoid.

I went to my cache of treasured texts and grepped
"iod", did a reverse line, and word count, keeping
just the oid's, and pasted a re-reversed column in:

      2 diobmohr      rhomboid 2      
      1 diocehtip     pithecoid 1      
      1 diocelocs     scolecoid 1      
      1 diocilif      filicoid 1      
      3 diocsid       discoid 3      
      1 dioeolgooz    zoogloeoid 1      
      1 diohcirt      trichoid 1      
      1 diohcnoc      conchoid 1      
      5 diohcysp      psychoid 5      
      1 diohpacs      scaphoid 1      
      1 diohpix       xiphoid 1      
      1 diohpmahr     rhamphoid 1      
      1 diohpyt       typhoid 1      
      2 dioidrac      cardioid 2      
      1 dioineat      taenioid 1      
      1 dioipo        opioid 1      
      2 diolakla      alkaloid 2      
      2 diolartsua    australoid 2      
      1 diolayh       hyaloid 1      
      4 diolbat       tabloid 4      
      2 diolcyc       cycloid 2      
      1 diolcycipe    epicycloid 1      
      1 diolobarap    paraboloid 1      
      1 diolognom     mongoloid 1      
      3 diolullec     celluloid 3      
      2 diomgis       sigmoid 2      
      2 dionamuh      humanoid 2      
     55 dionarap      paranoid 55     
      1 dionhcara     arachnoid 1      
      3 dionibannac   cannabinoid 3      
      1 dionimesni    inseminoid 1      
      1 dionoc        conoid 1      
      8 dioporhtna    anthropoid 8      
      2 dioralop      polaroid 2      
     21 diorbif       fibroid 12     
      2 diordna       android 2      
      1 diordned      dendroid 1      
      2 diordnilyc    cylindroid 2      
      7 diorehps      spheroid 7      
      1 diorena       aneroid 1      
     40 diorets       steroid 04     
     72 dioretsa      asteroid 27     
      3 dioretsoruen  neurosteroid 3      
      6 diorf         froid 6      
      1 diorgen       negroid 1      
      1 diorhcohtnax  xanthochroid 1      
      1 diorips       spiroid 1      
      4 dioroetem     meteoroid 4      
      1 diortsor      rostroid 1      
      7 dioryht       thyroid 7      
      1 dioryhtarap   parathyroid 1      
      2 diospille     ellipsoid 2      
      1 diosunis      sinusoid 1      
      1 diotamred     dermatoid 1      
      1 diotcesni     insectoid 1      
      1 diotenalp     planetoid 1      
      2 diotnodo      odontoid 2      
      1 diotsa        astoid 1      
      2 dioua         auoid 2      
      4 dioued        deuoid 4      
    594 diov          void 495    
    473 diova         avoid 374    
    160 dioved        devoid 061    
      1 diovo         ovoid 1      
      3 diovtsop      postvoid 3      
      2 diozapart     trapazoid 2      
      2 diozepart     trapezoid 2      
     24 diozihcs      schizoid 42     
      1 diozorehtna   antherozoid 1      

How could I have overlooked -- Schizoid?
 
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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