I pedantically use day-mon (working/servant spirit) to distinguish from dee-mon (evil spirit) but I suspect I'm very much in the minority. https://en.wikipedia

I pedantically use day-mon (working/servant spirit) to distinguish from dee-mon (evil spirit) but I suspect I'm very much in the minority. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimon vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon I've never found any significance to associate the unix term with Demons and consider it a mis-association.