[URBAN NOTE] "Wait, How Are You Supposed to Spell the 6ix, the Six, or the 6?"

[rfmcdonald]

I was amused by this Torontoist feature on Toronto's new nickname, courtesy Drake.

Torontoist is in the midst of revamping its house style guide, and while most style decisions have been fairly clean cut, there remains one for which our team cannot come to a consensus: the spelling of the 6ix. Or is it 6? Six?

There has been a great deal of variation in our publication alone. We have long referred to @norm as the 6ix dad, but our twice-monthly music column Sound Advice columns use “The 6” in their subheadings.

To try to reach a unanimous decision about this highly important spelling debacle, we had a frank discussion about the 6ix/Six/6.