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It's a "Web 2.0"-style dropped-vowel spelling of "lanyard". (Lanyards being commonly used at conferences to hold ID cards.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyard



Thanks - lanyard was a word I didn't know yet.


Any plans for some kind of barcodes-on-nametags feature that could be called "scanyrd"? ;)




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