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[–] rubicon@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I called this S.Q.L. until our IT guy corrected me

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm the head of IT for my company and it's S-Q-L and I'm a native speaker.

It's not a grammatically correct pronunciation at all (which is why it seems like non-native English tends to not say "Sequel") and even MySQL documentation specifically calls it out and says it's S-Q-L

[–] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Generally English first language speakers say sequel while everyone else spells it out.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it's pronounced sequel why isn't it CQL?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Because it's not, it's just something from computing history that is no longer relevant