Mispronouncing acronyms - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Aug 2010

Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> wrote:
...
  Surely covered on this list before, but I will re-open
the box:
 SQL.
 I say "ess kyu ell."   I rarely hear "sickle," although that makes
 some sense.  I *always* hear "sequel," which requires some more
 imagination.  It's only a hunch, but I suspect this originated from
 the dark halls of Redmond. 
Nowadays, with wikipedia and all, one would think that people would
actually check things up... :-)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sql, under the history section...
I'd say "sequel" is almost more correct than "ess kyu ell". :-)
But of course everyone is free to pronounce it any way they see fit.
        Johnny
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