github.com/elves/elvish@v0.15.0/website/learn/name.md (about) 1 # Etymology 2 3 In [roguelikes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike), items made by the 4 elves have a reputation of high quality. These are usually called _elven_ items, 5 but "elvish" was chosen because it ends with "sh", a long tradition of Unix 6 shells. It also rhymes with [fish](https://fishshell.com), one of the shells 7 that influenced the philosophy of Elvish. 8 9 # Stylization 10 11 The word "Elvish" should be capitalized like a proper noun. However, when 12 referring to the `elvish` command, use it in lower case with fixed-width font 13 (like in this sentence). 14 15 # Related Words 16 17 The adjective for Elvish (as in "Pythonic" for Python, "Rubyesque" for Ruby) is 18 **Elven**. 19 20 Whoever practices the Elvish way is called an **Elf**. The 21 [GitHub organization](https://github.com/elves/) is called Elves for this 22 reason.