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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!daffy!uwvax!tricia!newsmaster From: Jay.Jaeger@msn.fullfeed.com (Jay R. Jaeger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:11:45 GMT Organization: The Computer Collection Lines: 17 Message-ID: <328bb47a.2221749@news.msn.fullfeed.com> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <328386bc.112278367@news.ov.com> <562i2k$f3a@kirin.wwa.com> <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cubeppp.msn.fullfeed.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99f/32.299 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26440 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1510 alt.folklore.computers:124637 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? --- Jay R. Jaeger The Computer Collection Jay.Jaeger@msn.fullfeed.com visit http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~cube