Nobody the Aardvark
Figure 1: As a nineties kid, I remember this puppet well.
The proper name, 'Otis,' or /ˈo.tɪs/ means 'nobody.'
It is derived from the Ancient-Greek adverb, οὐκ or ‘ouk;’
or οὐ or ‘ou’, which means ‘not’ and the
pronoun, τις or ‘tis;’ which means ‘somebody,’ ‘someone.’
Hence Οὖτις, or 'Oũtis,' means 'not someone' or 'not somebody' or 'nobody,' 'no-one.'
'Oũtis,' appears in Homer's Odyssey:
A a child, I always hated Otis the Aardvark, though! He was no Ed the Duck, that's for sure!
Figure 2: This is what a real entertainer looks like!
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