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JIRA? nope.
Jira. yes.
Jira is not an acronym. It has never been an acronym.
There are no letters to stand for. Hands off the caps lock.
- 1 You open a ticket. You write "Filed in JIRA."
- 2 Someone sends you this page.
- 3 You read it.
- 4 You write "Jira" from now until the end of time.
The actual origin: "Jira" is a truncation of Gojira — the Japanese name for Godzilla — an internal nickname that stuck. It is a proper noun, not an initialism.
Source: Wikipedia.
Source: Wikipedia.
It's Jira. Just Jira. Always Jira.
Say it with me. Lowercase. Very normal.
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