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Re:Understanding Daemons by jpxw on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:50PM (#24368065)
No, in the same way that paediatrician isn’t pronounced paydiatrician
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Re:Understanding Daemons by pmiller2 on Thursday September 03, 2020 @04:38PM (#24368625)
It's also not spelled "paediatrician" in American English, hence the confusion.
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Re:Understanding Daemons by rgoulter on Friday September 04, 2020 @12:04AM (#24371612)
To be fair, it's not obvious how to pronounce a way it's spelt. e.g. "record" and "record" are pronounced differently, but have the same spelling.

The poem "Dearest creature in creation" is a fun illustration of the differences between spelling and pronunciation.

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Re:Understanding Daemons by teddyh on Friday September 04, 2020 @04:22AM (#24372893)
It’s called “The Chaos”:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Chaos

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