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I've always wondered about this. Also: I pronounce "daemon" as "DAY-mun," as opposed to "demon", which I pronounce "DEE-mun." Do the rest of you make this dist
by billybob 15y ago
I've always wondered about this.
Also: I pronounce "daemon" as "DAY-mun," as opposed to "demon", which I pronounce "DEE-mun." Do the rest of you make this distinction?
- troels 15y agoYes, I do. The only problem then, is how to pronounce Damon, as in Matt.
- SamColes 15y agoSee, Team America: World Police for clarification.
- saddino 15y agoThe guy from the Bourne Shell Identity?
- trafficlight 15y agoDAY-mun. But you really gotta drag out the AY.
- damoncali 15y agoAs an authority on the subject, I submit that since "Damon" is pronounced Day-mun, that "daemon" must be pronounced Dee-mun, as it's just an alternate spelling of "demon". But mostly I just want to stop being confused whenever someone says "daemon" around the office, and I think they're talking to me.
- Osiris 15y agoTypically in English, an e after a vowel indicates the vowel should make a hard sound rather than soft. So looking at it that way, Daemon should have a hard a (like the name of the letter), thus DAY-mon.
- koenigdavidmj 15y agoIt really gets interesting when you work (as a sysadmin in a Unix shop) for a guy with that name.
- yardie 15y agoI pronounce it DAY-mun when speaking to other UNIX hackers and DEE-mun when speaking to windows users or regular users. I've never been formerly told how to pronounce it when I started hacking in Redhat. Since most early hackers were smarter than most I assumed there was some sort of word trickery involved (met another guy that pronounced it DAY-EE-mun) that would make me stick out like a newb.
- dkersten 15y agoI do it the opposite. I've known for a long time how it was meant to be pronounced, so when talking to other programmers/hacker types, I say DEE-mun, but when talking to ordinary people I say DAE-mun so they don't say "wtf demons on computers now?" or somesuch - most don't, but some more religious types look at you funny...
- yardie 15y agoI guess I was overthinking it. Thanks!
- andrewl 15y agoI've always said "DEE-mun," just as I say Julius SEE-zer, not SAY-zer.
- yalue 15y agoI've always said "DIE-mun" just as I say Yulius "KAI-zer"...
- cafard 15y agoDammit, now I want to say CHEEser VILhelm...
- eru 15y agoAccording to Wikipedia the native speakers said [ˈkajsar].
- cstavish 15y agoUnfortunately, the Classical Latin pronunciation is not used colloquially, so in everyday life, I must stray from what I learned, lest I be viewed as the incorrect one.
- ignifero 15y agoto stay true to their ancient greek origin, you should pronounce them 'deh-mon
- sigzero 15y agoI say it exactly like you do.
- ltamake 15y agoYeah, I do that too. I first did it by accident but I liked the distinction between the two words so I just pronounce daemon like that.
- Aloisius 15y agoI also pronounce it DAY-mon like GAY-lic.
- zephjc 15y agohttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/daemon http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/daemon Pronounces it DEE-mon which is how I've always said it. (The Golden Compass audiobooks and movie also pronounce their spirit animals, called Daemons, as DEE-mon). I always thought the UNIX term came from the meaning of a subordinate/helper spirit (which is what they are, basically - helper services) Edit: interchangeably, DEE-mon or DEE-mun
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- lakeeffect 15y agoI would pronounce it dea-mon. I think there exists a clouded shift on the vowel pair.