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'!