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If it helps, they actually named it after their desired CLI abbreviation:

> The command-line tool is called jj for now because it's easy to type and easy to replace (rare in English). The project is called "Jujutsu" because it matches "jj".




And the martial art is jiu-jitsu, not jujutsu. Similar sounding but definitely not “named after”.


No it's not, but so far the Brazilians are still sticking with the incorrect ~1908 way of writing it.

Standard Japanese pronunciation for "jutsu" does not contain an i, and it's also judo not "jiu-do" that the old system would have called for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu#Etymology




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