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Well, if you try not to think about it too hard, you may fall right about wherever Spike does:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LO0MRVjcY4E

So I looked into this a bit and…

it appears to be based on whether a word is using Latin or Greek as its etymological basis, for words pertaining to feet.

In Latin… it is ped-… but in Greek… it is pod-.

… And, you are correct, English has a mish mash of both.

But also, a lot of English words referring to children use the Greek derived ped- or pedo- to refer to… children.

…Which is why in British English, the spelling ‘paed-’ is used, to minimize this confusion.

But us clever Americans dropped that, rofl.

Sorry to rain on the parade… but ya’ll know that the prefix indicating something pertains to the foot or ankle is pod-, right?

Podiatry. Podiatrist.

Ped- refers to children.

Pediatrician. Pediatrics.

So King Arthur in Japan is just English flavored Joan of Arc.

… you… don’t think there were people too poor, or ugly, or unhygenic, or rude, or abrasive, or poor of health, … to have ever had a sexual encounter, to ever be married … and to become misogynistic as a result?

He was what we would now call a volcel.

Women were distractions to him, he was much more interested in inventing calculus, arguing over who invented calculus, astronomy, alchemy, economics, etc.

And then one hell of a shit.

That looks to be an immense amount of food for a cat that size, but maybe I am getting the perspective wrong?