…But I’ve only ever heard SSL pronounced as its three letters. Why not like “Cecil”? Or “Sizzle”?
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I kind go 80/20 Sequel/EsQueueEl (squeal wtf?) when talking in english and “Ese Cu Ele” 100% when talking in Spanish
I second “sizzle” or “sissle.” My partner pronounces API as “appy” and it’s the best thing ever.
That’s adorable.
I had a project manager back in 2008 who pronounced SQL “skwall.” I heard “My Skwall” and “Skwall Server” so many times. We all said “S Q L.” No one ever corrected him.
I’ll say S Q L but for MySql I’ll always say My Sequel
That’s the southern version
He qas actually from Philly.
I’ve always pronounced it “sequel”, but ever since I attended a talk by the authors of PHP and MySQL Web Programming, and they pronounced it Ess-Cue-Ell I’ve been second guessing myself.
I always pronounced it as ess-cue-ell but gave up on it when everyone in professional environments said “sequel”.
What I remember attending a PHP event in ~2009 was one of the old veterans there saying:
Only Microsoft folks say “Sequel Server”, we say “My S Q L”
I just pronounce it exactly like reading the letters individually, because I’m actually a human being.
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If I am going to believe random articles I found on the internet (and, of course, I am), the reason is because SQL was originally called SEQUEL until the creators ran into a trademark issue… They changed it to SQL, but us old timers just kept calling it the old thing. Something about old dogs and new tricks.
https://medium.com/tableplus/how-to-pronounce-sql-properly-s-q-l-or-sequel-7203a5185676
Log4j is another fun one.
Log For Jay or Log Forge?
Low gaj
I like to use the non-acronym name, so that I can say: “Structured Query Language. Or, with the JSON field type, more like UNSTRUCTURED query language!” And then I laugh like a maniac for 5 minutes while the other people in the line at Wendy’s give me weird looks.
I personally pronounce it S.Q.L
In French, we just pronounce it as three letters, so I was very confused at first when my English-speaking colleagues were referring to sequels of apparently nothing.
It’s always Star Wars
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