Geek salad

Today's salad has been tossed by droids and words of a similar sound beginning with dro.

Starting with droid, I imagine it's a straight shortening of the word android in a similar way that bot is short for robot and borg is short for cyborg. Since these are not the words we're looking for I'll stick to droid.

Star Wars must have first popularised the word. I certainly didn't say droid before 1977. I wonder if its copyrighted? If a domestic appliance company had invented it it would have no doubt had that company's name. Hoover perhaps or Dyson. I'm not sure what it's called when one brand defines the item like this. Google is another one, now synonymous with browsing. These are not the Hoovers you're googling for doesn't have quite the same ring to it though. I may have created a snowclone there! Or maybe a snowdrone.

Speaking of drones, the next similarly sounding word, that being drone, I recently heard that Krispy Kreme or maybe dunkin donuts now deliver their donuts by drone. Yes, your favourite sugared rings hovering at the door. These are not the donuts I was waiting for I hear you say. I have the very word for these parachuting pastries: dronuts. I need to copyright it quick!

My final dip into the prefix dro is a strange word, a word unknown to me until seeing a simple science experiment a few years ago. That word is drogue. A drogue is a device which creates balance and drag in either air or water. Ships use them. In the experiment I saw the drogue was actually a paper cone floating to the ground. Greater minds than mine will be able to explain drogue physics far better than I so I'll stop droning on!

More geek salad to follow. Please toss your own and send it in. These are not the drogues you've been looking for I'm sure!