posted on February 23, 2002 09:34:46 AM new
eBay, Ebay, EBay, ebay. Please change your name to Ebay. Most people can't get the capitalization right (eBay) in the middle of a sentence, much less when it's the first word of a sentence or in a title (still eBay). Who can blame them?
eBay, show us you care about the quality of spelling in America.
posted on February 23, 2002 09:56:00 AM new
I agree completely. That uppercase "B" has always been a pet peeve of mine and I've always refused to type it as such.
By the way, you missed one version - if you go strictly by their logo, it's "ebaY."
posted on February 23, 2002 11:09:00 AM new
I think the whole idea of the eBay spelling is to be hip and different and distinctive. I like it just the way it is. I'm an old fart but I can think young and change with the times.
posted on February 23, 2002 11:30:39 AM new
I'm able to change with the times too, but it's a matter of personal taste. "Hip" and "Annoying" are not mutually exclusive terms - I could give many examples based on my own tastes, but that would just derail the thread.
Besides, I think the sound of the word "ebay" did more to create a distincitve market niche for ebay more than the unorthodox spelling. Your average man on the street knows the name "ebay, " but chances are he wouldn't know how to spell it with ebay's correct capitalization scheme.
posted on February 23, 2002 11:39:05 AM new
Aw, the heck with the correct spelling of eBay (which I do as a matter of course), even if it appears at the start of a sentence.
The new item that bothers me is Microsoft's .NET (yes, the name begins with a period and is all caps).
Now, let's refer to it the way some articles do. .NET is Microsoft's blah, blah, blah...
How awkward is it to start a sentence with a period?
posted on February 23, 2002 04:52:16 PM new
ohmygod, holdenrex, you're right. eBay spells its name 2 different ways on their home page. What's up with that?
