…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
I’m glad this is top comment, I thought I was weird for a moment there
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.
I’m actually a human being.
Git outta here skinbag!
Both pronounciations are wrong. Skvæl is the correct way to pronounce the acronym.
I have never heard of someone call SQL squeal lmao, sequel or S Q L is all I have heard
That’s probably because of the (spoken) language differences.
I second “sizzle” or “sissle.” My partner pronounces API as “appy” and it’s the best thing ever.
That’s adorable.
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
People who use tabs after punctuation 🥲
