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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu!neoucom.edu!news.ysu.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!rclnews.eng.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!dciteleport.com!phase2.worldnet.att.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.kolumbus.fi!usenet From: teemu.peltonen@teleste.fi (Teemu Peltonen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 06:44:22 GMT Organization: Teleste Communication Ltd Lines: 14 Message-ID: <573hvh$1lj@pinta.kolumbus.fi> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> <328bb47a.2221749@news.msn.fullfeed.com> <56n415$5k6@news.ece.nwu.edu> <571mve$ov8@calvin.st-and.ac.uk> Reply-To: teemup@teleste.fi NNTP-Posting-Host: teemup.comnet.teleste.fi X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26622 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1591 alt.folklore.computers:125062 dtrg@st-andrews.ac.uk (David Thomas Richard Given) wrote: >In article <56n415$5k6@news.ece.nwu.edu>, >Robert Bonomi <bonomi@eecs.nwu.edu> wrote: >>Neither. In the _context- of "Operating systems design" and utilities >>discussions, it is traditionally prounounced "day-mon". Specifically >Over here, everyone I know and everyone they know and everyone *they* >know pronounce it deemon. I tink it's just another of those words that is Over here people tend to pronounce it "da-eh-mon". That is, "a" like "o" in the word "Mom", "e" like in the word "mega" (unless you pronounce "mega"'s "e" like in the word "me") and the "mon" part is deeper than in "month". Well, nobody really is probably interested in this, but it's my two cents..