• AlexisFR
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    -513 hours ago

    It’s written pedo. I don’t know where the “paedo” thing came from.

    • @[email protected]
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      1312 hours ago

      From PIE root “pau-” (few, little), to Latin-transliterated via Greek “paed” (boy, child), and spelled thusly to distinguish from “ped-” (foot), circa 1600AD. Reduced to “pedo” from “paedo” as part of the shift in Americanization of accents and spelling in the late 1700s early 1800s.

    • Orbituary
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      210 hours ago

      Confidently incorrect.