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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.
Wait... what is a pedometer counting????
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.