…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
Came here to say this.
How about Es-Queue-Ell?
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This introduces a non-trivial increase in syllabatic inefficiencies
Well done
At this point I can’t remember if the first time I heard of SQL was in reading and I just read it as an acronym or if it was audio/visual and that’s how the person said it… Sadly, it’s a mystery I’ll never know the answer to.
I’m glad this is top comment, I thought I was weird for a moment there
No you and that guy both.
I personally pronounce it S.Q.L
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.
To be consistent, you should call them JavaScript Object Notation field types
I have always pronounced it spelled out. Es Qu El
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!
I kind go 80/20 Sequel/EsQueueEl (squeal wtf?) when talking in english and “Ese Cu Ele” 100% when talking in Spanish
Log4j is another fun one.
Log For Jay or Log Forge?
Low gaj
I mean, people call JSON jason, so i suppose sequel for SQL is alright (although, i still use Es-cue-elle). Sizzle absolutely needs to become a thing.
I second “sizzle” or “sissle.” My partner pronounces API as “appy” and it’s the best thing ever.
That’s adorable.
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
Germany here: In my company we pronounce every letter, so: “Eß Kjuh Äl”.
!devshowerthoughts (community idea?)
Ever since I saw this XKCD I’ve called it Squill
Everything has a relevant XKCD. There’s probably even an XKCD about there always being a relevant XKCD.
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”.
