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well, I recognise when I'm outnumbered by upsidedowners, but I still have to agree with the good Father - its connotation is surely mostly just like the suffix ~ette, leading to a sense of diminutive.
But perhaps the two aren't such a stretch apart... humanoid > less than human > oid=less... ?
ah, I've got Billie Holiday playing just now on this fine June night... "Me, Myself & I" trickling out into the balmy hayfield...
edit: not so balmy as barmy spellin'!
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