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Side note, I was surprised there was no 'a' after code. I have been reading it as codeAcadamy the whole time. Interesting how something looking different can cause you to pay more attention.

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I seriously thought they just changed their name. Turns out I've been reading it wrong all along.

Ha yeah I came to terms with this after doing a double-take some time ago. But we still pronounce it code academy right?

OT: Reminds me of when I learnt I'd been reading deprecated as depreciated for years, until seeing: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/45295/why-is-ther...

I've never noticed the "a" was missing until now, but I've intuitively always pronounced it as one word, like "coda-cademy"

This is because CodeAcademy (with the a) already existed (using the domain codeacademy.org). They changed their name to "The Starter League" in Sept 2012 [1].

[1] - http://www.builtinchicago.org/blog/code-academy-evolves-star...

Founder of Code Academy (now The Starter League) here. Thanks for clarifying this! It seems we'll never live it down. Happy to share more about our experience and how we dealt with the conflicting name.

Wow - me too. If you actually go to http://www.codeacademy.com/, it forwards you to this URL. I don't know if this is "new" or not.

this is not new! our name has always been codecademy.

That's so funny - just like @joshdance said, I always read it as "Codeacademy". At least you have both URLs. I'd love to see a blog post one day that explains why you've chosen this name vs. that name. Co-decademy is a meaningless word to me (that's how I read it - "co" as in "codependence") whereas Code Academy makes 100% sense to developers.

I think that they intentionally changed the logo to emphasize the C since so many people pronounced it incorrectly.

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