…But I’ve only ever heard SSL pronounced as its three letters. Why not like “Cecil”? Or “Sizzle”?
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How about Es-Queue-Ell?
This introduces a non-trivial increase in syllabatic inefficiencies
Well done
I’m glad this is top comment, I thought I was weird for a moment there
No you and that guy both.
At this point I can’t remember if the first time I heard of SQL was in reading and I just read it as an acronym or if it was audio/visual and that’s how the person said it… Sadly, it’s a mystery I’ll never know the answer to.
I have never heard of someone call SQL squeal lmao, sequel or S Q L is all I have heard
Came here to say this.
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 just pronounce it exactly like reading the letters individually, because I’m actually a human being.
Eye tee oh oh ell eye kay ee tee oh pee are oh en oh you en see ee ee at see aitch ell eye tee tee ee are bee ee see ay you see ee eye tee oh oh ay em ay aitch you em ay en
I’m actually a human being.
Git outta here skinbag!
I second “sizzle” or “sissle.” My partner pronounces API as “appy” and it’s the best thing ever.
That’s adorable.
I personally pronounce it S.Q.L
I’ve also heard Squirrel
I had a uni lecturer pronounce MySQL as “my squirrel”
Where does the R come from? 🤔
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.
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.
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”.
I’m struggling to realise it’s anything but scuzzy.
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
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”.
Ever since I saw this XKCD I’ve called it Squill
Everything has a relevant XKCD. There’s probably even an XKCD about there always being a relevant XKCD.
People who use tabs after punctuation 🥲
Germany here: In my company we pronounce every letter, so: “Eß Kjuh Äl”.
I have always pronounced it spelled out. Es Qu El
People pronounce Sql as squeal? O.o
“people”
Only monsters
I’ve been using sql for like 15 years now, and I’ve never heard anyone call it squeal! It’s always ess-cue-ell or sequel
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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.
That’s the southern version
He qas actually from Philly.
I’ll say S Q L but for MySql I’ll always say My Sequel
