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How do you pronounce daemon? (piefed.zeromedia.vip)
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Demon? Damon? Or something more exotic?

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[–] notgold@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I always thought the 2 pronunciation of route were different but similar things. Raut as in a set road between two large places, not specific place in a city but the city itself. Root as a path between 2 specific points, house to house.