I know it seems to be regional based, we in the UK tend to say Kephalopod (i.e. hard 'c') unless we heard the word first from someone in the US (or elsewhere)
well, I was at the CIAC conference in Crete last month and as the word is Greek I thought I would ask the local greek ceph biologists...the Grecians invented the word after all (is this going to lead to a US English vs English English spelling war?!)
And their immediate and unanimous response was...
Kephalopod - so a hard 'C' please
Thats cleared that up then :P
Gav
well, I was at the CIAC conference in Crete last month and as the word is Greek I thought I would ask the local greek ceph biologists...the Grecians invented the word after all (is this going to lead to a US English vs English English spelling war?!)
And their immediate and unanimous response was...
Kephalopod - so a hard 'C' please
Thats cleared that up then :P
Gav