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From: Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
Date: 14 Nov 1996 19:35:39 -0800
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Jay.Jaeger@msn.fullfeed.com (Jay R. Jaeger) writes:
> steve@fastnet.prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > someone who knows how to pronounce daemon
> >properly.
> >
> <snip>
> 
> According to whom?  The dictionary I ahve lists the pronunciation as
> dEmen  (long E).  However, I know lots of would be Unix hacks who, for
> some reason, think it should be pronounced dAmen (long A).  Or is this
> one of those British English vs. US English debates?

Ahhh, I knew there was a second reason I keep the Compact OED around.
(The first reason is the magnifier that comes with it :-)  Lets see what
it has to say:

	daemon, daemonic, etc: see DEMON, etc.

There, that settles it!

// marc