It bothers me more than it should when people pronounce sql as sequel.

would you really rather say "Microsoft ess cue ell server"?

@CrashOverride no:

My Ass cue ell.

@Letmecode It never "meant" sequel, that's just a convenient way to pronounce it. I mean it saves a syllable. I always liked it, I don't see the big deal. It's like SCSI. You wouldn't want to pronounce that "ess see ess eye" would you?

@Letmecode I can't tell if you're being facetious, but SCSI is conventionally pronounced "scuzzy".

…or was. Not like anyone uses SCSI anymore.

sequ... TRIGGERED

@Letmecode Actually I think what you really want to google is the difference between acronym and initialism.

@Letmecode Oh it's completely subjective. I don't think anyone can claim there are grammatical rules at play here; it's purely a matter of personal preference. I've always liked word pronunciations because for one they're usually easier to say, and for two it's an insider thing. Usually when I hear someone pronounce it "ess cue ell" I think to myself they're not in the know.

Pronouncing things another way than its written is really annoying. SQL, SCSI and GIF (had to do it) for example.
Some people are completely self taught. They just read it.

I once got an interview question "what is your experience with sequel?" I said that I didnt even had a clue what it was.

Guess what I do know what S Q L is. Never heard the term sequal before. Guess who didnt get the job?

@Codex404 I can see why you have strong feelings towards them! But I think it's fair to say that's a good example of why you should learn them, whether you like them or not.

There are certain ones I can't stand too. For instance I will absolutely never use the word "mebibyte". To me, 1024 kilobytes is a megabyte. End of story. But I still know of its existence so I know what people mean if I do happen to hear it.

That being said, I think not hiring someone because they don't know the pronunciation of an acronym is a bit harsh.

I pronounce it sequel. I wonder who else I've annoyed...

My c quel

But "struhqueerlang" is such a mouthful...

How do you pronounce ASCII?

@Its-a-feature
Ass Key

For anyone who needed this. I'll show myself out now.

@ocwjay it goes a little deeper than that. It was originally SEQUEL and was then changed to SQL. BUT, while all are now written SQL, some flavours are officially pronounced sequel, while others s q l. Microsoft SQL server is pronounced sequel, but MySQL is pronounced my s q l (although they don't mind you pronouncing it my sequel, according to their documentation). So for any specific implementation you have to check the documentation, but the language itself is pronounced s q l so the sentence "I'm writing an SQL query on Microsoft SQL server" would correctly be pronounced as "I'm writing an s q l query on Microsoft sequel server".

I stand corrected. I didn't realize it originally had "English" in the name.

@Bikonja That's nice to know!

@DonMcCoy Agreed, Not A, S, C, I, I