Idism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ido \I"do\ ([=e]"d[=o]), n.
     An artificial international language, selected by the
     "Delegation for the Adoption of an Auxillary International
     Language" (founded at Paris in 1901), made public in 1907,
     and subsequently greatly revised and extended by a permanent
     committee or "Academy." It is a revised and simplified form


     of {Esperanto}. It combines systematically the advantages of
     previous schemes with a thoroughly logical word formation,
     and has neither accented constants nor arbitrarily coined
     pronominal words. For each idea that root is selected which
     is already most international, on the principle of the
     "greatest facility for the greatest number of people." The
     word "Ido" means in the language itself "offspring." The
     official name is: "Linguo Internaciona di la Delegitaro
     (Sistema Ido)." -- {I"dism}, n. -- {I"dist}, n.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]