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

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, Disagree) by Grishnakh on Monday May 18 2020, @11:05PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday May 18 2020, @11:05PM (#996063)

    You seem to have some issues with reality.

    1. SQL is pronounced "sequel" whether you like it or not. Proof: countless people actually pronouncing it that way, and it appears to be a majority of people who actually know what SQL is and what it stands for.

    2. Any products name "sequels" before the invention of SQL are irrelevant. The *only* that that matters is how the term is pronounced now, by most people.

    3. "SQL Server" *is* a Microsoft product whether you like it or not. They bought it and it's theirs, and has been theirs for several decades now. I don't like it either, but I'm not going to deny reality.

    4. MS *is* a market leader in this area, again, like it or not. I'm pretty sure if you go look up sales figures for commercial databases, Microsoft's is right up there, probably right behind Oracle (another "dreaded beast"). Again, I don't like it either, and I wish everyone would just convert to PostgreSQL, but it is what it is.

    4a. How do you pronounce "MySQL"? As I recall, it was named by some Swedish guy after his daughter, My, which apparently is pronounced like "me" in English, not "my". Does anyone care, or do they just pronounce it "my-sequel"?

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