🤣 Look at them Boyd’s!

did you perhaps go to Hahvahd, and pahk yah kah?

Although the name for the  “Boids”  particles stands for “bird-oid object” (= bird-like object), it’s incidentally also a New York Metropolitan dialect pronounciation for “bird”. So, maybe you invent a new particle type and call is “Kah” 😁!

@spikeyxxx I’ve found my informations here in the Blender 2.79 manual. But there’s also a lot of nonsens written in this manual and some things a very outdated like the description of texture mapping in Blender Internal Render here that refers to the user interface of Blender 2.49 here  (button block in the lower left corner)🤣!

So, you’re right with your statement that you often can’t tell what’s the truth. An official explanation can be added later in order to make it sound more serious or a popular explanation can be added later because the scientific explanation is too abstract and hard to remember.