…But I’ve only ever heard SSL pronounced as its three letters. Why not like “Cecil”? Or “Sizzle”?

🤔

  • Sens@feddit.ukEnglish
    25·
    2 years ago

    I have never heard of someone call SQL squeal lmao, sequel or S Q L is all I have heard

    • bobaduk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

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  • RockDeBilly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Gil (he/they)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    I second “sizzle” or “sissle.” My partner pronounces API as “appy” and it’s the best thing ever.

      • jago@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I also have heard Squirrel, the first time I ever heard of SQL. It was in a webinar info session for just a very superficial top-level type of understanding, really intended for nothing more than to acquaint first-tier support staff with technical terms and concepts. “SQL stands for Structured Query Language. For short, we can call it ‘sequel’ or ‘squirrel’.” (Cue stupid clip-art graphic of a buck-toothed smiling squirrel on a tree branch, holding an acorn, because what’s a webinar without insipid mnemonics?) That sort of thing.

        I grokked the use of ‘sequel’, because the letter sequence S-Q-L is exactly that word, sans vowels, and even if schwas are substituted for the vowels, the pronunciation doesn’t change much.

        But for ‘squirrel’ I had to imagine that they were taking the R from ‘queRy’ and injecting it to make SQL into SQrL for the sake of a cute memory device that would resonate with people who weren’t expected to have any interest or investment deeper than a front-line customer service drone.

    • Modal@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’d be curious if “Squirrel” originated with the SQuirreL client. The only time I’ve heard someone call SQL “squirrel” was because they were using SQL interchangeably with the client.

  • chadac@beehaw.orgEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • pianosaurus@fedia.io
    10·
    2 years ago

    Some are more established than others. The one with the highest levels of agreement I’ve ever encountered, is SCSI, which pretty much everyone in-the-know pronounce “scuzzy”.

  • khendron@beehaw.org
    9·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • eddythompson@beehaw.org
      6·
      2 years ago

      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”

    • False@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      I always pronounced it as ess-cue-ell but gave up on it when everyone in professional environments said “sequel”.

  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyzEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    I had a project manager back in 2008 who pronounced SQL “skwall.” I heard “My Skwall” and “Skwall Server” so many times. We all said “S Q L.” No one ever corrected him.