On Friday 20 September 2002 12:01 pm, you wrote:
I would be very careful about using any words beginning with "pedia-" or anything similar. The Greek root for this relates to children, and even the slightest inadvertant suggestion that the name could have anything at all to do with kiddy-porn may bring a whole lot of unwanted traffic.
Ec
I thought the root was ped from the Latin pedis which means foot. I'm not sure where "pedophila" came from. "Ped" is the root of many other words. Shall we not use those either? Boy I thought I was paranoid about ultra minor things. I vote for PediaWiki because it has a certain ring to it -- this would just be the name of the software and any ref to it will be a couple levels in from the main page.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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Both pediatrician and pedophile come from the Greek prefix paedo- meaning "child".
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 05:04, Tom Parmenter wrote:
Both pediatrician and pedophile come from the Greek prefix paedo- meaning "child".
This is why those of us living in *EDUCATED* countries still spell them "paediatrician" and "paedophile".
;)
I believe the root produced by "pedis", meaning "foot", is "podi" - "podiatrics" being stuff to do with feet, and "podiatrist" being someone who looks after your feet.
Adam Williamson wrote:
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 05:04, Tom Parmenter wrote:
Both pediatrician and pedophile come from the Greek prefix paedo- meaning "child".
This is why those of us living in *EDUCATED* countries still spell them "paediatrician" and "paedophile".
;)
I believe the root produced by "pedis", meaning "foot", is "podi" - "podiatrics" being stuff to do with feet, and "podiatrist" being someone who looks after your feet.
Foot doctoring is "podiatry" but "ped-" roots are just as common, e.g. "pedal" and "pedicure". The most interesting of the "pod" words though is "antipodes". The islands with this name, a part of New Zealand, are about as far away on the globe as you can get from England. Ec
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 04:23, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Foot doctoring is "podiatry" but "ped-" roots are just as common, e.g.
True...
"pedal" and "pedicure". The most interesting of the "pod" words though is "antipodes". The islands with this name, a part of New Zealand, are about as far away on the globe as you can get from England.
Well, you often hear "antipodes" used in the UK just to refer to pretty much the whole NZ / Australia system - if you say someone's "antipodean" you're really saying "he's from NZ / Australia / somewhere round there"...
On Saturday 21 September 2002 06:24, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 05:04, Tom Parmenter wrote:
Both pediatrician and pedophile come from the Greek prefix paedo- meaning "child".
This is why those of us living in *EDUCATED* countries still spell them "paediatrician" and "paedophile".
;)
I believe the root produced by "pedis", meaning "foot", is "podi" - "podiatrics" being stuff to do with feet, and "podiatrist" being someone who looks after your feet.
"pod-" and "ped-" both mean "foot", but in Greek and Latin respectively (the nominatives are "pous" and "pes"). Neither has anything to do with "pais", Greek for "child", or "paideia", "discipline, education, upbringing of a child". The spelling "-paedia" comes from importing the Greek word into Latin. "paediatrician" does not begin with the morpheme "paedia"; it's "pais" plus "iatros", "doctor". Of course a Wikipediatrician...
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