Kephalopod or Sephalopod?

How do you pronounce 'cephalopod'?

  • Soft C (Sephalopod)

    Votes: 13 92.9%
  • Hard C (Kephalopod)

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • Total voters
    14
I'm glad you have all already had this discussion. I (Brit) recently confused Kraig Derstler (American) by saying "kephalopod" and he confused me by saying "sephalopod", the first time I had met that pronunciation (as far as I can remember).
 
Ah, another useful thread for my book! :wink: Thanks y'all.

It's perhaps worth noting that Spanish cefalópodos is always pronounced with a soft C (as Spanish hews more reliably than English to the "C-followed-by-an-E-or-I-is-soft" rule). I'm pretty sure it's the same in all the other romance languages.

Anyone know about other languages?
 
I've only heard the k pronunciation a couple of times and suspect no valid reason for the hard c.
I assume you will do a paragraph on octopodes, octopuses and octopi :wink:
 

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