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I have always called SQL, S Q L.
That’s bad logic, obviously if SQL is “sequel” then DNS is “denues.”
Now I’m never going to read DNS the same way again 😭
enjinx
that’s how i pronounce it from the very first time i saw it
I like to pronounce them like squeal and dunes.
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.
Came here to make this comment. So by the same logic, DNS or Domain Name System should have been abbreviated to DoNaS and pronounced dou-NAS.
DNS is pronounced ‘hosts’ because it was originally one big text file.
Thanks for making the comment I came to make. I imagine being older and remembering SQL as a new-ish thing really helped cement this, but when I started programming professionally for an enterprise, literally everyone pronounced it like this. I can see how and why it makes little sense to younger people.
The wild thing is I’m only in my 30s, I’m probably a youngin’, compared to you, I just was around a good deal of old timers, real fuckin’ wizard types.
TIL, thank you. Still not gonna say it like that.
Still gonna call it squirrel though
HTML: hatemail
HTTP: hat-top
MSDN: Mastodon
SSH: shhhhh
PHP: fffffffp
Anybody else ever use HoTMetaL to make a website?
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.
Good thing it’s not running on bare metal, amirite
I thought HTML was hate em all.
JSON is pronounced Jason
It isn’t Jason, it’s Jayson. But yeah, basically indistinguishable.
And the only sane choice, as opposed to Sequel.
JSON Statham
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.
denise
This is amazing in its truthfulness.
I had a coworker pronounce URL as Earl.
Bro I heard someone pronounce it squeal before 🫠
That’s adorable!
Less so when you consider my rotten syntax
It’s the DENNIS system.
If the nameserver says no, then the answer obviously, is no.
Lol 😄
