On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 02:26:09PM -0400, Joanne M. Despres wrote: > Well, Jim, maybe the chemists chose this word for the sake of > clarity and intelligibility, so that they wouldn't end up with a passel > of analysands. Remember, Prozac hadn't been invented yet. I was sort of rooting for "analysee", myself. Jesse Sheidlower OED