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Podd
Podd is an educational game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, published by Acornsoft in 1984.
The eponymous main character teaches young users various verbs, performing an appropriate animation when a recognised word is typed in.
The object of the game is to find the 120 verbs that Podd can recognise. Several words are mapped to one animation (e.g. "walk", "hike", "stroll", etc.), and children who realise this will be able to guess more words by thinking
James Alfred Dunn Podd
James Alfred Dunn Podd (March 16, 1855 - December 23, 1886) was a leading Baptist preacher in Chicago, Illinois. Podd was born in Nevis, West Indies on March 16, 1855. Podd's father was a leading minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church. As a boy, he and his family moved to the Island of St. Christopher. Podd went to England for his studies. Upon completion, he returned to the West Indies where he received a government appointment in the department of