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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.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Message-ID: <E1AEu0.44K@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <328386bc.112278367@news.ov.com> <1996Nov17.151839.2057@nntp.muohio.edu> <kbibb.848591839@shellx> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 19:44:23 GMT Lines: 16 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26614 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1589 alt.folklore.computers:125052 In article <kbibb.848591839@shellx> kbibb@best.com (Ken Bibb) writes: >>Daimon in Greek would be pronounced dyemon, actually. >Really? >I thought "ah ee" is a dipthong. It is, in fact it's the diphthong in "dye". If you say "dah ee", the more you run it together the more it sounds like "dye". You Americans just talk funny. -- Richard -- "Nothing can stop me now... except microscopic germs"