# Etymology

In [roguelikes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike), items made by the elves have a reputation of high quality. These are usually called *elven* items, but "elvish" was chosen because it ends with "sh", a long tradition of Unix shells. It also rhymes with [fish](https://fishshell.com), one of the shells that influenced the philosophy of Elvish.

# Stylization

The word "Elvish" should be capitalized like a proper noun. However, when referring to the `elvish` command, use it in lower case with fixed-width font (like in this sentence).

# Related Words

The adjective for Elvish (as in "Pythonic" for Python, "Rubyesque" for Ruby) is **Elven**.

Whoever practices the Elvish way is called an **Elf**. The [GitHub organization](https://github.com/elves/) is called Elves for this reason.
