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enjinx
that’s how i pronounce it from the very first time i saw it
I like to pronounce them like squeal and dunes.
denise
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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.
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.
Yeah except this name was already taken and then it became SQL, dropping the English.
Even the start of your wiki says:
Structured Query Language (SQL) (pronounced /ˌɛsˌkjuˈɛl/ S-Q-L; or alternatively as /ˈsiːkwəl/ ⓘ
That would explain why it’s only American to I’ve ever heard referred to it like that. Every European developer I’ve ever heard referred to it as always called it SQL as would I.
Other DNS is definitely Dennis from now on.
I too am going to call DNS ‘Dennis’ from now on, lol.
Yeah I’ve had some discussions over time with the whole SQL vs Sequel thing, and what I realized was that…
Well basically, I learned ‘Sequel’ from a bunch of old timers in the Seattle area.
The kind of people who had been writing COBOL since they got back from Vietnam, people who’d actually worked at IBM, still acted like Microsoft was an ‘upstart’, people who’d just offhand tell me about the one time they got ‘deployed’ to Saudi Arabia to flash a compromised BIOS onto hardware destined to be used in Saddam’s air defense network, prior to the Gulf War.
So, they actually literally were there back when SEQUEL was invented.
TIL, thank you. Still not gonna say it like that.
Still gonna call it squirrel though
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JSON is pronounced Jason
JSON Statham
I say Jay-sahn.
Lots of people do, and it makes no sense.
How do you pronounce “J”?
How do you pronounce “son”?
Now put them together.
LOL! I wouldn’t pronounce “J son” like Jason, either!
“Son” is pronounced “sun”. Jason is pronounced Jay-sin.
Also, I’ve had coworkers named Jason, and I want to be able to say “Use JSON” without it sounding like I’m saying “Use Jason”.
Oh I get it!
How do you pronounce “e”?
How do you pronounce “yes”?
Now put them together for “eyes”!
Sure, that explains why people pronounce it that way now. What I’m wondering is why people started pronouncing it that way in the first place. When I see the letters JSON, my brain parses it as J-SON. It’s even a common first name ffs.
I couldn’t say. There is an older guy in my group who calls it “Jason”. Also we have 2 guys on my team named Jason and the back end jason now goes by J-Sahn. I have always read it j sahn and I have no idea why.
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.
I had a coworker pronounce URL as Earl.
Want some URL Grey tea?
HTML: hatemail
HTTP: hat-top
MSDN: Mastodon
SSH: shhhhh
PHP: fffffffp
Pehp.
I thought HTML was hate em all.
Anybody else ever use HoTMetaL to make a website?
Not HoTMaiL?
Or HoTMaLe?
HoTtaMaLe
I always thought it was Hotmail, probably because my first email address was using Hotmail and that was sort of my first introduction to computing.
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
hitttup, wuh wuh wuh
Don’t you mean, DEE-niss? 8====D <------ There. It’s right there.
This is amazing in its truthfulness.
Denise - it’s French
You say your name right! Now, dee-NICE!
Ay-ay-ron! Is Ay-ay-ron here?
How do you pronounce PDF file?
The orange one
Pee Duff
T-r-u…
E-p-s-t-e-i-n?
The original product was called SEQUEL. Structured English QUEry Language. They got sued over the name by a company named Sequel, so changed it to SQL but kept calling it sequel, as do we all.
Except me who call it Es-Queue-El as language intended.
/Old mans rant off
I call it like that since I’m from SA and I learnt it in english so it was taught to me as an acronym. When learning English I just translated the acronym. Learning the original name is a TIL for me but I’m still calling it like I did fuck it.
South Arabia?
I’m from sweden 😁
So say we all
Lol 😄
