I have long subscribed to Novell Connection magazine, and thought I would give everyone a link to how Novell says "SuSE" is pronounced: http://www.novell.com/connectionmagazine/2004/05/tech_talk_1.html In the Linux Lingo section: SUSE (pronounced soo-za) -Erik On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:26:43 -0700, brian wrote: > On Monday, March 28, 2005 12:17 PM Ric Fischer wrote > > On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:34:30 -0700, Jared Anderson > > wrote: > > > > > > MySQL: > > > ====== > > > my sequel? > > > my S.Q.L.? > > > > Sequel. > > > > Why? Because that was its original name. You can (usually) tell a > > newcomer to RDBMS by the way they pronounce this. The original name > > for this was > > > > Structured English QUEry Language > > > > Hence, its proper name was SEQUEL. For legal reasons, they had to > > change the name to SQL as another company had already trademarked > > SEQUEL. > > > > According to ANSI (usually pronounced as a word), we are supposed to > > pronounce it letter-by-letter as in ESS-QUEUE-ELL. (I'd provide a link > > directly to ANSI's document, but their site was too slow.) > > > > An excellent source for much of this stuff is: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL > > From the official MySQL documentation: > " The official way to pronounce ``MySQL'' is ``My Ess Que Ell'' (not ``my > sequel''), but we don't mind if you pronounce it as ``my sequel'' or in some > other localized way." > --http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/what-is.html#IDX25 > > See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss