The likelihood of a piece of evidence e according to a hypothesis H, known as "the likelihood of e given H", is often written either Le(H) or L(H∣e). The latter notation is confusing, because then L(H∣e)=P(e∣H). Many students of statistics find it hard enough to keep the difference between P(H∣e) and P(e∣H) straight in their heads if we don't occasionally swap the order of the arguments when talking about similar functions, so on Arbital, we much prefer the notation Le(H)=P(e∣H).
[fixme: Make this a child of 'likelihood' when 'likelihood' exists.]