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by viraptor 306 days ago
At some point, if you have to write articles about the proper spelling of the name, maybe you should just accept the alternative names as well. Also looking at you Datadog and Cloudflare. (The employees of the second one are especially allergic to CloudFlare for some reason)
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brongondwana 306 days ago
We tried very hard to convert FastMail to Fastmail and... it's been about 90% successful but there's definitely a bunch of things out there spelled the old way. We just joke about BIG M occasionally.

[TIL - it's not even as old as me!] https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/1978-launch-of-big-m/

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johnisgood 306 days ago
And I tried telling people "news-teller" (or "news teller") is a better word than "herald", and I got told off, so I dunno.

By the way, I love that the OP used the Text Fragment (Scroll-to-Text Fragment) feature. I hope it is going to catch on more, quite helpful / useful.

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ciupicri 306 days ago
I guess you could say the same about pronouns.

Anyway, why would someone use the spelling with upper D beats me. It's not proper English.

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viraptor 306 days ago
> I guess you could say the same about pronouns.

Entirely different thing. Software/things are not the same as people.

> why would someone use the spelling with upper D

SystemV, Zyklon B, Vampire hunter D, Plan B, Model T, Type O, ... It's extremely common.

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ciupicri 304 days ago
It's System space V, Model space T, so separate words.
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