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It's a mistake from hypercorrection. It's not a historical spelling, it's a misspelling.
by jfb 11y ago
It's a mistake from hypercorrection. It's not a historical spelling, it's a misspelling.
- Dylan16807 11y ago>It's not a historical spelling If you don't accept online evidence, will you accept a picture of a dictionary from 1933 listing it as a valid spelling?
- jfb 11y agoIt's a new coinage, after the ae ligature had fallen into disuse. Would you expect that "browser" should be spelled "browƒer"?
- Dylan16807 11y agoUh, that's a font choice, so yes you can do that.
- anyfoo 11y agoIt is not just a font choice, it is a different set of characters that share some connection. The same way as you can't just spell any german word that contains digraphs for Umlauts with the actual Umlauts. I made the "Oehler"/"Öhler" example above. People who are named Oehler would probably be pretty annoyed at your insistence to spell their name wrong, just like people here are annoyed at your spelling of daemon. I assume you do not come from a country which has an extended latin alphabet? In Germany for example, it is pretty common to clarify how to spell such names on the phone, like saying "Mueller with U-E". If that would be a font choice, this would not be an issue.
- Dylan16807 11y agoLong s is the same character as short s. OE and Ö are not the same character. æ is a ligature in some contexts, and its own letter in others. None of which matters to the original question.
- kuschku 11y agoſ and s is not the same character – in some languages at some times, it was used to mark a sharper s. Combined with the z, from ſz came ß later.
- jfb 11y agoConceded. I still think the ae ligature in "Unix daemon" is a misspelling or usage failure.
- anyfoo 11y agoThere were no operating system daemons in 1933. You are proving the wrong thing, namely that the ligature is a valid way to spell a mythological daemon.