…But I’ve only ever heard SSL pronounced as its three letters. Why not like “Cecil”? Or “Sizzle”?
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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.
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”.
I kind go 80/20 Sequel/EsQueueEl (squeal wtf?) when talking in english and “Ese Cu Ele” 100% when talking in Spanish
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
Since I learned it by myself and never said it out loud for 10 years, I’ve always pronounced SQL as “school” and I’m not going to stop.
Log4j is another fun one.
Log For Jay or Log Forge?
Low gaj
definitely using “sizzle” at the earliest available opportunity
I personally pronounce it S.Q.L
ITYM “Squirrel”.
I’m definitely in the ‘sequel’ camp, but the favourite I’ve heard is ‘squirrel’. I couldn’t get behind that. I have done some stuff in spaces where ‘squeal’ was used, along with pig iconography being present in internal tools. 🐷
for a while I used to use a client called SQuirreL on mac
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
Did not know that, and further googling shows the same story all over the interwebs. Thanks!
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We could have been updating our sizzle certificates all this time!
How about Es-Queue-Ell?
This introduces a non-trivial increase in syllabatic inefficiencies
