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From: csess@blaze.trentu.ca (Eric S. Smith: Left-Field Marshal)
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
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Organization: Trent University, Canada
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In article <56kli3$395@kirin.wwa.com>, John Everett <jeverett@wwa.com> wrote:

>As I've posted here before, DAEMON was pronounced deemon (not daymon)

And quite rightly, too.  I don't suppose the people who say daymon look 
things up in the encyclopaydia, do they?

--Eric Smith