P Kishor wrote:
snobs ;-)
Hardly. More like Defenders of the One True Way. ;-)
...to each her own.
And there is no need for this sort of feminist activism on this list
either. :-)
Anyway a little digging on wikipedia found this:
/SQL/ is commonly spoken either as the names of the letters /ess-cue-el/
(IPA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet>:
[ˈɛsˈkjuˈɛl]), or like the word /sequel/ (IPA
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet>:
[ˈsiːkwəl]). The official pronunciation of SQL according to ANSI
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI> is /ess-cue-el/. However, each of
the major database products (or projects) containing the letters /SQL/
has its own convention: MySQL <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL> is
officially and commonly pronounced "/My Ess Cue El/"; PostgreSQL
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL> is expediently pronounced
/postgres/ (being the name of the predecessor to PostgreSQL); and
Microsoft SQL Server <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server>
is commonly spoken as /Microsoft-sequel-server/.
Being a strong proponent of SQL standards, I am glad to see that ANSI
got it right. ;-)
Dennis Cote
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