Re: pronunciation of daemon
egbert@bork.demon.nl (Egbert Bouwman) wrote:
[OT, but anyway ...]
>On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:32:33AM -0500, Simon Law wrote:
>> For reference...
>> The New Oxford Dictionary of English says...
>> daemon (2) /di'm@n/ (also demon)
>
>I don't have this dictionary,
>and I don't know the meaning of these pronunciation symbols.
Hence the link provided in the post to which you replied ...
>So tell me:
> the e in demon as in hate, deep or lemon,
deep.
> the ae in daemon as in hate, deep or lemon,
Some have suggested hate, Simon's dictionary suggests deep.
> the e in debian as in bed, hate, or deep,
bed. (Derived from Debra (sp?) Murdock.)
> the gn in gnome as the first part of knee, genius or gentle,
The English word gnome has the gn as the first part of knee; in the case
of GNOME I pronounce a hard 'g' separated from the 'n', so guh-NOHM (not
proper phonetic alphabet, but it should suffice ...), by analogy with
GNU.
> the i in variable as in like or pink,
Neither; as in deep. (Derived from "vary".)
> the g in integer as in get or gipsy,
gipsy. (The following 'e' causes the 'g' to be pronounced like a 'j'.)
> the i in inetd as in like or pink,
I use like - eye-net-dee. (Short for InterNET Daemon, so I separate the
'i' and the 'd'.)
> the i in init.d (the first one) as in like or pink.
Closer to pink, but that isn't a good example word because the final 'k'
(a velar, according to that FAQ?) modifies the preceding vowel
significantly. 'pin' would be better. (Short for "initialization".)
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]
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