On Tuesday, 25 January 2000 at 16:47, Pollywog wrote: > > On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote: > > Silly, but... How do you pronounce "daemon"? I thought it was > > pronounced "day-mun", but an online dictionary I checked said it had the > > same pronunciation as "demon". > > I pronounce it "demon" but I have heard a few people pronounce it "day-mun". > Since they also say "Lie-nucks", I went with "demon". :)
Both of those are legitimate, if old-fashioned, pronunciations. People who pronounce it Lie-nucks have probably just been using it since before the Great Pronunciation Controversy...