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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!ns.draper.com!news.draper.com!mjl3825.draper.com!user From: mjl@draper.com (mj leblanc) Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Message-ID: <mjl-2111961156310001@mjl3825.draper.com> Sender: nntp@draper.com (NNTP Master) Nntp-Posting-Host: mjl3825.draper.com Organization: The Charles Stark Draper Lab, Cambridge MA References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> <328bb47a.2221749@news.msn.fullfeed.com> <56n415$5k6@news.ece.nwu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:56:31 GMT Lines: 20 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26596 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1585 alt.folklore.computers:125004 In article <56n415$5k6@news.ece.nwu.edu>, bonomi@eecs.nwu.edu (Robert Bonomi) wrote: >Neither. In the _context- of "Operating systems design" and utilities >discussions, it is traditionally prounounced "day-mon". Specifically >do distinguish it from 'demon'. This is -not- unique to UNIX, and can >be found in several O/S's that predate it -- e.g. TOPS (-10 or -20), MULTICS, >just to name a couple.. ...and then there are those of us who've been forced to take Latin in the past. The Latin dipthong 'ae' is pronounced, roughly, as /eye/, therefore "daemon" would be pronounced d(eye)mon. If I try to pronounce it any other way, I half expect to be brutally whipped by avenging nuns. :mj -- Hey, this post may or may not have contained SATIRE, depending upon my mood.