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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 29 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

Except me who call it Es-Queue-El as language intended.

/Old mans rant off

[–] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

So say we all