and ghoti spells fish.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Poe Lim" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Question re: common Oz pronounciation of
cephlopod...


> Historically I was told (as we have several term, such as cephalometric)
it
> was the UK way to pronounce it with a "k" sound, apparently closer to the
> Latin pronounciation as it should be.
>
> Cheers,
> Poe
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Krazy Kiwi" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Question re: common Oz pronounciation of
> cephlopod...
>
>
> > Damn ... I thought I had written another paragraph on this original
> > question of Crusty's ..  but just realised, now that the archives are
back
> > up again, that I was only talking about it on the phone with Strike ...
me
> > forgot to write it up in my previous post.
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > Shirley Slack-Smith, our Perth authority on cephalopods, pronounced it
> with
> > the hard 'K' sound.  When it came to question time I did query this as
> most
> > of us Sandgropers sound it with the soft 'C'.  She advised it could be
> > either way.
> > Who I am to argue about the 'p' and 'q's considering I am always being
> > pulled up by the aussies for kiwi-spek involving e's and i's ;-)
> > Viv
> >
>
>