…But I’ve only ever heard SSL pronounced as its three letters. Why not like “Cecil”? Or “Sizzle”?
🤔
I personally pronounce it S.Q.L
Germany here: In my company we pronounce every letter, so: “Eß Kjuh Äl”.
How about Es-Queue-Ell?
This introduces a non-trivial increase in syllabatic inefficiencies
I’m glad this is top comment, I thought I was weird for a moment there
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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.
I kind go 80/20 Sequel/EsQueueEl (squeal wtf?) when talking in english and “Ese Cu Ele” 100% when talking in Spanish
I just pronounce it exactly like reading the letters individually, because I’m actually a human being.
I’m actually a human being.
Git outta here skinbag!
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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 mean, people call JSON jason, so i suppose sequel for SQL is alright (although, i still use Es-cue-elle). Sizzle absolutely needs to become a thing.
Log4j is another fun one.
Log For Jay or Log Forge?
Low gaj
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
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.
Skwill just to be different.
I’ve also heard 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.
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.
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
