Talk:mermoid

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Creature resembling mermaid or merman. Not much in Google Books. Equinox ◑ 01:06, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Hits on Google Books appear to all be scannos of "mermaid." Astral (talk) 05:24, 29 May 2012 (UTC)


 * See all the other similar entries by User:Dantescifi (including the following). SemperBlotto (talk) 06:56, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I think I see a pattern emerging after a cursory search: the ones with definitions along the lines of "an animal resembling x" stand a tolerable chance at attestability. The "x-like humanoid" ones, however (with the exception of maybe a couple based on very characteristic animal forms), seem to be just examples of the productivity of the -oid suffix: to coin a word, bovinofecoid. Macropinoid, especially, has no Google Books hits and all the regular Google hits eventually trace back to us (I didn't check usenet) Chuck Entz (talk) 07:36, 29 May 2012 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 01:30, 12 October 2012 (UTC)