At some point, if you have to write articles about the proper spelling of the na...

brongondwana · 2025-08-18T10:26:39 1755512799

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/

johnisgood · 2025-08-18T11:32:11 1755516731

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.

ciupicri · 2025-08-18T16:19:05 1755533945

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.

viraptor · 2025-08-19T03:18:24 1755573504

> 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.

ciupicri · 2025-08-20T16:16:59 1755706619

It's System space V, Model space T, so separate words.