[6657] in Kerberos
Re: Resnet Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (smb@research.att.com)
Thu Feb 15 16:35:59 1996
From: smb@research.att.com
To: jik@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com (Jonathan Kamens)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 16:10:23 EST
First of all, since the English word is transliterated from a
foreign language, the spelling is probably conventional at
best anyway.
Second, although my dictionary lists the spelling as
"Cerberus", it also claims that it comes from the Latin, which
comes from the Greek, and offers "Kerberos" as the Greek
spelling.
The Greek word is actually pronounced with a `k' sound as the first
letter. Writing it as Cerberus deludes English speakers into saying
it as ``Serberus'', which is wrong. (Yes, I checked with some native
speakers of Greek...)
