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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 14 Nov 1996 19:35:39 -0800 Organization: codewright Lines: 23 Message-ID: <x7bud0xc6s.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <328386bc.112278367@news.ov.com> <562i2k$f3a@kirin.wwa.com> <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> <328bb47a.2221749@news.msn.fullfeed.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dumbcat.codewright.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26422 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1500 alt.folklore.computers:124601 Jay.Jaeger@msn.fullfeed.com (Jay R. Jaeger) writes: > steve@fastnet.prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) wrote: > > <snip> > > someone who knows how to pronounce daemon > >properly. > > > <snip> > > According to whom? The dictionary I ahve lists the pronunciation as > dEmen (long E). However, I know lots of would be Unix hacks who, for > some reason, think it should be pronounced dAmen (long A). Or is this > one of those British English vs. US English debates? Ahhh, I knew there was a second reason I keep the Compact OED around. (The first reason is the magnifier that comes with it :-) Lets see what it has to say: daemon, daemonic, etc: see DEMON, etc. There, that settles it! // marc