What means Zoyd?

[Mary Krimmel]

At 12:50 PM 7/3/03 -0700, you wrote:
>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
...........
       594 diov       void 495
...........
>      24 diozihcs      schizoid 42
>       1 diozorehtna   antherozoid 1
>
>How could I have overlooked -- Schizoid?

A provocative list, a useful technique. Thank you.

To me, the name suggests "void" just as strongly as "schizoid" and also 
suggests "zed", the last letter and the end (of the alphabet).

Mary Krimmel