Re: Deity vs Diety
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 06, 1997 at 11:24:00AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
> > My major interest in the -Desktop and Diety projects is the provision for
>
> This name is confusing me -- is it really Diety?
> Should be "Deity", no? Very different!
>
Deity \De"i*ty\, n.; pl. Deities. [OE. deite, F. d['e]it['e],
1. the state of being a god 2. a god or godess 3. Code name for
the new debian package manager
Diet \Di"et\, n. 1. what a person or animal usually eats or drinks
2. a regimen of special or limited food and drink, as to lose weight
Diety \Di"ety\, adj. 1. Similar to a diet 2. Somewhat not unlike
a diet 3. a mispelling of deity.
I hope this clears things up. 8)
Behan
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