I know the word pubes And I assume people know how to pronounce it However in my experience although pubes is used as a medical term sometimes it s primarily used as slang hence saying it s not a medical term and hence I find it misleading to have it stated in the article that it is a medical term Most articles I ve seen in scholarly publications call it pubic hair Particularly because pubes is a term with several meanings whereas pubic hair is specific Also most articles don t have links to dictionaries except Wiktionary obviously I see no reason to start