deamon off option is not recognized

[tatsumi]

hello,

I wrote nginx.conf first line.

deamon off;

but  demon off option is not recognized why?
my  nginx version: nginx/1.2.1

please help me 

# /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -c /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
nginx: [emerg] unknown directive "deamon" in
/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf:1

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