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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Correct:

  • "Sequel"
  • Structured Query Language

Incorrect:

  • "Squall"
  • "Es-queue-el"

The one that people really screw up? PostgreSQL.

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where?!

:: confused ADHD noises ::

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Outside, but you'll have to touch grass to reach it.

Outside? Hard pass.

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's interesting that Wikipedia says it's pronounced " S-Q-L" but was historically pronounced "sequel."

Also interesting, MySQL says on their site:

The official way to pronounce “MySQL” is “My Ess Que Ell” (not “my sequel”), but we do not mind if you pronounce it as “my sequel” or in some other localized way.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Post Graduate Squirrel

[–] SuolaSeta@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My people often pronounce nginx as "n-ginsk" not "engine x".

We call things "bits", "bytes", and my favorite: "nybbles". IT is rife with wordplay. How could they not think it was a cool way to spell "enigne"?!

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, let's not. :p

[–] lath@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're one of those? Its sequel and GIF has a hard g.

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Soft G folk are just objectively wrong. Not only is Jif a peanut butter, it's a damn file extension: https://fileinfo.com/extension/jif

I don't care how inconsequential it is, I will die on this hill.

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Jif is an oven cleaner here. Because I hate everyone, I started pronouncing it Gif. Makes a lot of people very very angry

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I like the cut of your jib.

[–] rubicon@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I called this S.Q.L. until our IT guy corrected me

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm the head of IT for my company and it's S-Q-L and I'm a native speaker.

It's not a grammatically correct pronunciation at all (which is why it seems like non-native English tends to not say "Sequel") and even MySQL documentation specifically calls it out and says it's S-Q-L

[–] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Generally English first language speakers say sequel while everyone else spells it out.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's pronounced sequel why isn't it CQL?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Because it's not, it's just something from computing history that is no longer relevant