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Old 04-18-2006, 12:57 AM   #23
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Thumbs up electripod - change of vowel

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Originally Posted by JohnM
To avoid this potentially embarassing confusion, you might want to go with 'electropod/electropode' since ped is child in Greek, but foot in Latin, whereas pod/pode is alway foot. That way your electric foot will never be mistaken for an electric child.
Point well taken. I'm down with the "pod". We could split hairs all day with whether the vowel that precedes "pod" should be an "o" or an "i", but I'm going with "electripod" as short for "electric pedestrian", or "electric foot".

I wasn't familiar with the Greek and Latin, but one of the things that did bother me about "ped" was that it could also be short for "pedal", which is a misnomer in this case.

Thank you, John!
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