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That’s bad logic, obviously if SQL is “sequel” then DNS is “denues.”
I will always judge people who say “sequel”
Why? It originated as literally SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language). It only changed because of a trademark conflict.
Its ok.
Let the script kiddies squeal and squirrel about.
The elder ones … they were there when the code was written.
Same, but I’m willing to team up with them against people who call it squeal.
I have always called SQL, S Q L.
I had a coworker pronounce URL as Earl.
SQL is pronounced ‘Sequel’ because it was originaly SEQUEL.
SQL was initially developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce after learning about the relational model from Edgar F. Codd[12] in the early 1970s.[13] This version, initially called SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language), was designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM’s original quasirelational database management system, System R, which a group at IBM San Jose Research Laboratory had developed during the 1970s.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
It then later evolved, and changed from being an acronym into an initialism, kind of, sort of, mostly for people who are unaware of the etymology.
‘Sequel’ is quite literally the tradtional way to pronounce it.
That would explain why it’s only American to I’ve ever heard referred to it like that. Every European developer I’ve ever heard referred to it as always called it SQL as would I.
Other DNS is definitely Dennis from now on.
I too am going to call DNS ‘Dennis’ from now on, lol.
Yeah I’ve had some discussions over time with the whole SQL vs Sequel thing, and what I realized was that…
Well basically, I learned ‘Sequel’ from a bunch of old timers in the Seattle area.
The kind of people who had been writing COBOL since they got back from Vietnam, people who’d actually worked at IBM, still acted like Microsoft was an ‘upstart’, people who’d just offhand tell me about the one time they got ‘deployed’ to Saudi Arabia to flash a compromised BIOS onto hardware destined to be used in Saddam’s air defense network, prior to the Gulf War.
So, they actually literally were there back when SEQUEL was invented.
I too am going to call DNS ‘Dennis’ from now on, lol.
I want to do this because I’m sure it’s going to tick someone off.
Did you update the Dennis records?
Have you checked if it can reach the Dennis server?
I love it!
Whole internet running on the Dennis system, go figure.
Because of the implication
Well… the .gov domains are currently run by an orange god emperor… so… pretty close.
DNS is pronounced ‘hosts’ because it was originally one big text file.
TIL, thank you. Still not gonna say it like that.
HTML: hatemail
HTTP: hat-top
MSDN: Mastodon
SSH: shhhhh
hitttup, wuh wuh wuh
PHP: fffffffp
HTML = hit mill
It’s like a machine (mill) that gets you hits (web traffic)HTTP = hitch tip
It’s the tip of the hitch that you attach to the hit millAnybody else ever use HoTMetaL to make a website?
Not HoTMaiL?
Or HoTMaLe?
HoTtaMaLe
And if they wanted Qt pronounced any way beside “cutie,” they shouldn’t have spelled it “cutie.”
enjinx
Jurassic Park (InGen) ruined any possibility of me ever pronouncing this the way they want me to. It’ll always be In-Gen-Icks out of my lips, like it’s a pharmaceutical company.
In Gen X we trust
Somewhere I heard that it should be pronounced as “Engine X”
On their own homepage? still won’t stop me tho
that’s how i pronounce it from the very first time i saw it
That’s better than me, I was saying en-ginks
Actually I also pronounce it as en-ginks. The parent comment was not obvious to me
I like to pronounce them like squeal and dunes.
SQL is pronounced Squirrel.
True
You know maybe some acronyms just sound good pronounced as words and some just don’t, ever think of that?
Denise - it’s French
JSON is pronounced Jason
I say Jay-sahn.
Lots of people do, and it makes no sense.
How do you pronounce “J”?
How do you pronounce “son”?
Now put them together.
Oh I get it!
How do you pronounce “e”?
How do you pronounce “yes”?
Now put them together for “eyes”!
SCSI was always skuzzy.
JSON Statham
I feel like this one is relatively uncontroversial
URL pronounced as “earl” however? I’ll spend all of my remaining energy in life ensuring the person saying it is stapled to the bottom of the Mariana trench with rebar
It’s not sequel. It’s squirrel.
Confusing because there is a DB client called SQuirreL.
But also relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1989/
How do you pronounce PDF file?
E-p-s-t-e-i-n?
