From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 10 13:01:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18620 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:01:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18615 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:01:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from port4.annex8.radix.net (port4.annex8.radix.net [205.252.108.4]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA26743; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:01:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:01:59 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Seal To: Eric Hodel cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Pronunciation of "daemon" In-Reply-To: <36C1F005.EA3E420E@seattleu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Demon \De"mon\, n. [F. d['e]mon, L. daemon a spirit, an evil spirit, fr. Gr. ? a divinity; of uncertain origin.] 1. (Gr. Antiq.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an intermediate nature between the divine and the human. --Sydenham. 2. One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. [Often written d[ae]mon.] 3. An evil spirit; a devil. That same demon that hath gulled thee thus. --Shak. RTFM ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Eric Hodel wrote: > Just how exactly do you pronounce "daemon?" Is it day-mon or > dee-mon? (Or something else entirely?) > > -- > Eric Hodel > hodeleri@seattleu.edu > > Where do you want to go today? http://www.FreeBSD.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message