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.TH "elvish\-name" "7" "Dec 30, 2019" "Elvish 0.13~rc5" "Miscellaneous Information Manual"
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.SH Etymology
.PP
In roguelikes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike), items made by
the elves have a reputation of high quality.
These are usually called \f[I]elven\f[R] items, but \[dq]elvish\[dq] was
chosen because it ends with \[dq]sh\[dq], a long tradition of Unix
shells.
It also rhymes with fish (https://fishshell.com), one of the shells that
influenced the philosophy of Elvish.
.SH Stylization
.PP
The word \[dq]Elvish\[dq] should be capitalized like a proper noun.
However, when referring to the \f[C]elvish\f[R] command, use it in lower
case with fixed\-width font (like in this sentence).
.SH Related Words
.PP
The adjective for Elvish (as in \[dq]Pythonic\[dq] for Python,
\[dq]Rubyesque\[dq] for Ruby) is \f[B]Elven\f[R].
.PP
Whoever practices the Elvish way is called an \f[B]Elf\f[R].
The GitHub organization (https://github.com/elves/) is called Elves for
this reason.