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[Ray Saintonge]

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.
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