While the article does end by stating that it doesn't really matter (which is true), I feel like deviated for silly reasons, and ended weird. Specifically, a l

While the article does end by stating that it doesn't really matter (which is true), I feel like deviated for silly reasons, and ended weird. Specifically, a lot of the journey was based on the false assumption that manpages will explain abbreviations or naming decisions, and should contain the exact expand form of such deviations - an assumption especially silly for commands as ancient as these, whose names were chosen on a whim by the original authors who were known to be allergic to command names longer than 3 characters. Finally, despite initial evidence suggesting "pwd" meaning "print working directory", and finally finding rather conclusive evidence for multics documentation showing that "pwd" is an abbreviation of an earlier "print_wdir", the conclusion ends up being "we'll never know for sure". I don't know about you, but it seems like the author is in denial here.