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Date:      Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:46:33 -0500 
From:      Peter Lai <PeterL@resnet.uconn.edu>
To:        'Kelly Hendrix ' <kelly@compuage.com>, "'questions@FreeBSD. ORG '" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Pronunciation revisited
Message-ID:  <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019EF2@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu>

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 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



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