I thought it would be funny if it looked like ’katydid.
...which is exactly how I pattern-matched it, and is why it was misleading to me: I happen to have interacted a fair amount over the past year with a (female) person whose screen name is “katydid”.
...which is exactly how I pattern-matched it, and is why it was misleading to me: I happen to have interacted a fair amount over the past year with a (female) person whose screen name is “katydid”.
Only now do I realize the implicit pun in the word, and hence why it reads female.