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[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 203 points 1 month ago

HTML: hatemail

HTTP: hat-top

MSDN: Mastodon

SSH: shhhhh

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago

Anybody else ever use HoTMetaL to make a website?

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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[-] m4ylame0wecm@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago

hitttup, wuh wuh wuh

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[-] GreatRam@lemmy.world 100 points 1 month ago
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[-] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

Ah, I see, you're a person of culture and distinguished taste.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 month ago

TIL, thank you. Still not gonna say it like that.

[-] pelya@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

DNS is pronounced 'hosts' because it was originally one big text file.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] freezy@discuss.tchncs.de 68 points 1 month ago
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[-] Codpiece@feddit.uk 46 points 1 month ago

It’s not sequel. It’s squirrel.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Skill. Then you can reply to any database problems your coworkers bring up with "sounds like a skill issue to me".

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 month ago

Confusing because there is a DB client called SQuirreL.

But also relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1989/

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[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago
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[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 45 points 1 month ago

The original product was called SEQUEL. Structured English QUEry Language. They got sued over the name by a company named Sequel, so changed it to SQL but kept calling it sequel, as do we all.

[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

So say we all

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Except me who call it Es-Queue-El as language intended.

/Old mans rant off

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[-] sudo@programming.dev 39 points 1 month ago

I had a coworker pronounce URL as Earl.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago

Want some URL Grey tea?

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[-] jeffep@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago
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[-] Romer@reddthat.com 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Don't you mean, DEE-niss? 8====D <------ There. It's right there.

[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 month ago
[-] nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

You say your name right! Now, dee-NICE!

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[-] Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 month ago

How do you pronounce PDF file?

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 26 points 1 month ago

E-p-s-t-e-i-n?

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[-] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

I like to pronounce them like squeal and dunes.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

And if they wanted Qt pronounced any way beside "cutie," they shouldn't have spelled it "cutie."

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[-] Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Bro I heard someone pronounce it squeal before 🫠

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[-] 5715@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

CDN: Codein
DHCP: Dickhead Chilli Peppers

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago
[-] ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 12 points 1 month ago

Oh, don't be DeNSe, it's pronounced SQueaL 🐷

[-] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago
[-] zemo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I will always judge people who say "sequel"

[-] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

Why? It originated as literally SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language). It only changed because of a trademark conflict.

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[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago

Same, but I'm willing to team up with them against people who call it squeal.

[-] xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

I self-taught SQL on the job and was denied a promotion because I said S-Q-L instead of Sequel. The supervisor that was interviewing me for the job ended the interview early because of it. This was almost 10 years ago now and I'm still salty about it.

[-] lmr0x61@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

It’s always Dennis

[-] Evil_Shrubbery 8 points 1 month ago

I didn't need to know this.
Ffs.

And it's exactly what a name server deserves.

[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I have always called SQL, S Q L.

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