I recently found an open music theory book (I think I found it from the r/musictheory subreddit). I haven't read it yet but it talks about this. https://viva.

I recently found an open music theory book (I think I found it from the r/musictheory subreddit). I haven't read it yet but it talks about this. https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/front-matter/introduction/ https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/front-matter/int... Under the Accessibility section: > We use some less-standard terminology to help readers who use screen readers; in particular, we never use a capital/lowercase letter M to distinguish major and minor qualities, and instead use the abbreviations “ma” and “mi.” Hopefully this nomenclature will become more common over time.