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Re: pronunciation of daemon



On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

I always did call it Lin-icks ... thinking of the play on lettering:

Unix -> Inux -> Linux

but what swayed me was hearing Linus Torvalds pronounce it himself at the
Silicon Valley LUG meeting ... what, almost two years ago. He says
Lin-icks.




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