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TRICUSPS
TRIPEDALS
TRIGENATES
TRIPEDS
TRIGONS
TRIQUETS
TRILOGS
TRIPODS
TRIDENTATES
TRIPPETS
and
a
number
of
other
mysterious
things
not
even
beginning
with
"
tri
"
—
though
almost
all
centered
on
the
feature
of
that
active
,
three
-
pronged
root
.
There
was
argument
,
public
,
private
,
and
bar
-
parlor
,
with
heated
championship
of
one
term
or
another
on
near
-
scientific
,
quasi
-
etymological
,
and
a
number
of
other
grounds
,
but
gradually
one
term
began
to
dominate
this
philological
gymkhana
,
in
its
first
form
it
was
not
quite
acceptable
,
but
common
usage
modified
the
original
lone
first
"
i
,
"
and
custom
quickly
wrote
in
a
second
"
f
,
"
to
leave
no
doubt
about
it
.
And
so
emerged
the
standard
term
.
A
catchy
little
name
originating
in
some
newspaper
office
as
a
handy
label
for
an
oddity
—
but
destined
one
day
to
be
associated
with
pain
,
fear
,
and
misery
—
TRIFFID
.
.
.
The
first
wave
of
public
interest
soon
ebbed
away
.
Triffids
were
,
admittedly
,
a
bit
weird
—
but
that
was
,
after
all
,
just
because
they
were
a
novelty
.
People
had
felt
the
same
about
novelties
of
other
days
:
about
kangaroos
,
giant
lizards
,
black
swans
.
And
when
you
came
to
think
of
it
,
were
triffids
all
that
much
queerer
than
mudfish
,
ostriches
,
polliwogs
,
and
a
hundred
other
things
?
The
bar
was
an
animal
that
had
learned
to
fly
;
well
,
here
was
a
plant
that
had
learned
to
walk
—
what
of
that
?
But
there
were
features
of
it
to
be
less
casually
dismissed
.
On
its
origins
the
Russians
,
true
to
type
,
lay
low
and
said
nothing
.
