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Re: pronunciation of daemon



On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 04:47:13PM -0000, Pollywog wrote:
> 
> On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
> > Silly, but...  How do you pronounce "daemon"?  I thought it was
> > pronounced "day-mun", but an online dictionary I checked said it had the
> > same pronunciation as "demon".
> 
> I pronounce it "demon" but I have heard a few people pronounce it "day-mun". 
> Since they also say "Lie-nucks", I went with "demon".  :)
> 

I'm really screwed up, then.  I use "day-mon" to distinguish from "demon",
but I also use "Linnix", because I know of the comparison to Minix.

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