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Originally Posted by HarryT
Bah, humbug. People are happy with "antipodes", so I really see no problem with "octopodes" (which is exactly the same stem). It should, I'd note in passing, be pronounced in the same way as "antipodes", with the stress on the second syllable - "oc-TOP-pode-eez"
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Good thing I never tried to pronounce antipodes in public!
(Goes to hide under her dictionaries)
