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Like naming your language after a common two-letter verb. At least we can search for 'golang'.

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

I guess it's lucky they misspelled it, so there's no conflict.

I would have spelled it "jiu-jitsu" if I had not looked up the spelling first and found that Wikipedia decided to spell it "jujutsu" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu). Maybe I trusted Wikipedia too much; I have never practiced jujutsu/jiu-jitsu myself.

Oh wow, I had no idea, thanks.