From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 13:50:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu (resnet.resnet.uconn.edu [137.99.156.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6938A37B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:50:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:46:34 -0500 Message-ID: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019EF2@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu> From: Peter Lai To: 'Kelly Hendrix ' , "'questions@FreeBSD. ORG '" Subject: RE: Pronunciation revisited Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:46:33 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this is a "britishism" because they use "ae" from the latin... as in: haemotology vs. hematology daemon vs. demon again, greek derivations use the 'e' only. -----Original Message----- From: Kelly Hendrix To: questions@FreeBSD. ORG Sent: 12/2/2000 3:53 PM Subject: Pronunciation revisited I thought it was over, but then I found this on a web site somewhere: "...daemon, pronounced demon." According to Webster's, this is true. But I always preferred to call it dAmon (long a). Kelly Hendrix 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