Confidently incorrect.
Comment on Anon tries programming in Java
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 5 weeks agoIt’s written pedo. I don’t know where the “paedo” thing came from.
Orbituary@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Comment on Anon tries programming in Java
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 5 weeks agoIt’s written pedo. I don’t know where the “paedo” thing came from.
Confidently incorrect.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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.