I don't care how either of you pronounce it, but the word is spelled
"cephalopod", not cephlopod.

Robert Delfs

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:40:22 +1000, David Strike wrote:

>On Sunday, June 23, 2002 11:11 AM, Crusty wrote:
>
>> Ahoy me mates in OZ, I have a question for you.
>
>> Elisa and I, while enjoying a delicious home cooked dinner of wild king
>> salmon and a fine bottle of New Zealand Nautilus chardonay,
>
>Mate!  It hurts me to say this, but some of the Kiwi white wines are
>outstanding!  :-)
>
>>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'!)  :-)
>
>Strike


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