On Jun 27, 2000, Mike Hicks <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu> wrote: > > random sidenote -- I saw today what may be a reason we write `daemon' in > Unix (but I'm probably wrong). If you translate from German, or another > language with umlauts, it's customary to do `ae' instead of `ä' > (`ä' in HTML), `oe' instead of `ö', etc. So, dämon -> daemon. A quick perusal of dictionary.com debunks this theory: http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=daemon [Middle English from Late Latin daemon, from Latin spirit, from Greek daimon, divine power; see da in Indo-European Roots.] NOTE: It's missing a bit of markup, particularly the "a" and "o" with a bar over it (see the web page). (c: John -- dusk at ravendusk.org http://www.gnome.org jsheets at codeweavers.com http://www.worldforge.org http://advogato.org/person/jsheets --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org