…But I’ve only ever heard SSL pronounced as its three letters. Why not like “Cecil”? Or “Sizzle”?
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I have never heard of someone call SQL squeal lmao, sequel or S Q L is all I have heard
How about Es-Queue-Ell?
This introduces a non-trivial increase in syllabatic inefficiencies
I’m glad this is top comment, I thought I was weird for a moment there
I just pronounce it exactly like reading the letters individually, because I’m actually a human being.
Eye tee oh oh ell eye kay ee tee oh pee are oh en oh you en see ee ee at see aitch ell eye tee tee ee are bee ee see ay you see ee eye tee oh oh ay em ay aitch you em ay en
I’m actually a human being.
Git outta here skinbag!
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
I second “sizzle” or “sissle.” My partner pronounces API as “appy” and it’s the best thing ever.
That’s adorable.
I personally pronounce it S.Q.L
Log4j is another fun one.
Log For Jay or Log Forge?
Low gaj
That’s probably because of the (spoken) language differences.
Both pronounciations are wrong. Skvæl is the correct way to pronounce the acronym.
Ever since I saw this XKCD I’ve called it Squill
People who use tabs after punctuation 🥲
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.
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 always pronounced it as ess-cue-ell but gave up on it when everyone in professional environments said “sequel”.
