denise
Lol 😄
SQL is pronounced ‘Sequel’ because it was originaly SEQUEL.
SQL was initially developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce after learning about the relational model from Edgar F. Codd[12] in the early 1970s.[13] This version, initially called SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language), was designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM’s original quasirelational database management system, System R, which a group at IBM San Jose Research Laboratory had developed during the 1970s.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
It then later evolved, and changed from being an acronym into an initialism, kind of, sort of, mostly for people who are unaware of the etymology.
‘Sequel’ is quite literally the tradtional way to pronounce it.
TIL, thank you. Still not gonna say it like that.
Don’t you mean, DEE-niss? 8====D <------ There. It’s right there.
I had a coworker pronounce URL as Earl.
Denise - it’s French
You say your name right! Now, dee-NICE!
JSON is pronounced Jason
I say Jay-sahn.
SCSI was always skuzzy.
Ah, I see, you’re a person of culture and distinguished taste.
I feel like this one is relatively uncontroversial
URL pronounced as “earl” however? I’ll spend all of my remaining energy in life ensuring the person saying it is stapled to the bottom of the Mariana trench with rebar
But only if you do it like Heavy Rain.
How do you pronounce PDF file?
E-p-s-t-e-i-n?
HTML: hatemail
HTTP: hat-top
MSDN: Mastodon
SSH: shhhhh
I thought HTML was hate em all.
Anybody else ever use HoTMetaL to make a website?
Not HoTMaiL?
Or HoTMaLe?
HoTtaMaLe
I always thought it was Hotmail, probably because my first email address was using Hotmail and that was sort of my first introduction to computing.
I had HotMetal Pro. I got it on a cd in a library book sale.
Add enough JavaScript frameworks and I’m sure the metal gets very hot indeed.
hitttup, wuh wuh wuh
Bro I heard someone pronounce it squeal before 🫠
That’s adorable!
Less so when you consider my rotten syntax
And remember, it’s spelled Netscape, but it’s pronounced Mozilla.
The original product was called SEQUEL. Structured English QUEry Language. They got sued over the name by a company named Sequel, so changed it to SQL but kept calling it sequel, as do we all.
So say we all
I will always judge people who say “sequel”
I self-taught SQL on the job and was denied a promotion because I said S-Q-L instead of Sequel. The supervisor that was interviewing me for the job ended the interview early because of it. This was almost 10 years ago now and I’m still salty about it.
Why? It originated as literally SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language). It only changed because of a trademark conflict.
That guy REALLY likes trademarks, apparently
Same, but I’m willing to team up with them against people who call it squeal.
It’s not sequel. It’s squirrel.
Skill. Then you can reply to any database problems your coworkers bring up with “sounds like a skill issue to me”.
Confusing because there is a DB client called SQuirreL.
But also relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1989/
… Just kill me
Oh my genitals / giantess! 😳
Still wrong. Squeal.
skull
sometimes its fun to stress wrong letters, like throwing out “ess-Kwall” or “seh-Kwall”
Squl
We pronounce it ancient.
