> On Sunday, June 23, 2002 11:11 AM, Crusty wrote:
> > Ahoy me mates in OZ, I have a question for you.
>
> > Elisa & I, while enjoying a delicious home cooked dinner of wild
> > king salmon & a fine bottle of New Zealand Nautilus chardonay,
> > watched a Discovery Channel special from OZ on cephlopods.
> > Of course the infamous blue ring, terror of the deep, was a feature :-)
>
> > All thoughout the program, the Ozzie host pronounced the invertebrate
> > cephlapods as 'kef-lopods' with a hard 'K' sound.  I've always heard it
> > pronounced with a soft 'C' sound as in 'seph-lopod'.  Is the 'Kef-lopod'
> > pronounciation common in Oz?
>
> Funnily enough, I've heard the same pronunciation in recent weeks and
> wondered myself at the use of the hard 'K'.  I'm with you in calling them
> 'sephalopods'.  (And because the root word is common to encephalitis,
> encephalogram and so on - all with a soft 'C' - I can only suppose that
> the users are up the shit bonzer, an idiomatic Ozzzie term for 'greatly
> mistaken', in their use of the hard 'K'!)  :-)

On this side of the pond our local authority on Cephalopods actually lives
here in Perth based at the Western Australian Museum.  Shirley Slack-Smith
gave a
presentation on Cephalopods to the Perth UW photo club in April.  Her
presentation certainly impressed us all .. I lost count of how many times I
said WOW :-)
Now we have been asked to sort through all our slide collections for
overseas cephalopod piccies.  The plan is to put on one big slide show for
her at the end of this year which will give her the opportunity to select
specific slides to be copied for their reference library.  Clay Bryce, a
former Western Australian Museum employee, was very much involved with the
latest Cephalopod reference book I currently have in my library (named
below).
Viv

Cephalopods - A world guide by Mark Norman.
This books covers the Pacific, Indian & Atlantic Oceans, the Red Sea,
Caribbean, Arctic & Antarctic.
http://www.capricornica.com/book_reviews/cephalopods.htm

An excellent web site with lots of links is:
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/facultypages/Squid/readyre
f.htm
eg The Tree of Life is worth checking out .. Click on the WORD or PHRASE
link to insert cephalopods