On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Triggered by the (very interesting) NoSQL episode. Why do Americans in > particular continue to pronounce SQL as "SEQUEL"? > > SEQUEL (Structured English QUEry Language) was the predecessor to SQL > developed by IBM back in the day. Wikipedia also lists it as > pronounced "ess-cue-el". It's even in the ANSI 1986 standard that the > official pronunciation for SQL is /ɛs kjuː ɛl/. > > So what gives. Is this a cultural thing? A DBA l33t speak thing? > I first started using SQL in 1989, and the DBAs I learned from pronounced it Sequel, and that's how I've always said it. It was well into the 90's before I ever heard anyone spell it out. Joey -- Blog: http://joeygibson.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/joeygibson FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/joeygibson Facebook: http://facebook.com/joeygibson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
