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From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms

posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 18 2020, @01:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-like-it-sounds dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

From iOS to SQL: The world's most incorrectly pronounced tech terms:

A lot of people pronounce common tech terms wrong, from iOS to SQL to Qi. It's understandable: Some of the proper or official pronunciations of these terms are counterintuitive at best. Still, we think it's time to clear the air on a few of them.

To that end, we're starting a discussion and inviting you to share your examples with us. Next week, we'll look into a bunch of them and publish a pronunciation guide.

[...] Below are a handful that have come up within the Ars [Technica] staff. Again, dear readers, feel free to discuss and debate, and to introduce some others of your own. For some of these and other terms suggested, we'll follow up with an article making the case for some correct (or, at least official) pronunciations versus incorrect ones, sourced as best as we can.

  • [...]iOS and beOS
  • [...]OS X and iPhone X
  • [...]SQL and MySQL
  • [...]Linux
  • [...]Qi
  • [...]Huawei

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2020, @02:25AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2020, @02:25AM (#995580)

    The language was originally named "SEQUEL" for Structured English Query Language. Alas, that name was already taken, so they had to change it. Thus, renamed to SQL, pronounced "SEQUEL."

    Now you know.

    :-D

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  • (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Monday May 18 2020, @10:20AM

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Monday May 18 2020, @10:20AM (#995666)

    No. Sequel was a previous language, similar in concept but over ambitions in its
    attempts to be English-like (for 1963) and was replaced by SQL - a completely different, less ambitions
    and more realistic project, after people discovered parsing English was more difficult than parsing COBOL.

    --
    Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!