If SQL is pronounced "sequel" then surely DNS is pronounced "Dennis"?

[nicelymanifest@mastodon.social]

@bloor I love the old 'Apache' server, named thus as it was initially patched together.

[scottmichaud@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@bloor Dunes. Beware the sandworms.

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@bloor TCP is pronounced "Take Pee"

[lumiukko@metalhead.club]

@bloor Luckily I have never anyone I care about pronounce it "sequel". I call it S-Q-L and I will die on that hill.

[bloor@bloor.tw]

@lumiukko I agree.

I've always pronounced it My-Ess-Kew-Ell.

But equally I've always pronounced DNS as Dee-Enn-Ess.

In other words not MySequel and Dennis.

[countablenewt@mastodon.social]

@greem @bloor
Broke: "Sequel" and "Dennis"

Woke: "Squeal" and "Denice"

[nxskok@cupoftea.social]

@jimfl @bloor this being Mastodon, that *has* to be the name of a server somewhere.

[nxskok@cupoftea.social]

@icecolbeveridge @jimfl @bloor stealing this!

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@bloor Denise.

[leeloo@c.im]

@bloor
It's not. Sequel was a predecessor of SQL.

Pronouncing SQL "sequel" is like pronouncing Windows "DOS".

[ivansanchez@mastodon.social]

@leeloo @bloor It makes sense if you're spanish, because first there's Windows DOS and then there's Windows Tres Punto Uno.

[tormodh@snabelen.no]

@bloor .. ... I stick with squeal

[antsu@p.antsu.net]

@bloor It's always him!

[cmw@dysfunctional.technology]

@bloor
Danes. With a stretched out a.

[punissuer@universeodon.com]

@qwyrdo @me_ @bloor hypertext the pre-sequel

[cdamian@rls.social]

@bloor
DNS the menace

[witewulf@cyberplace.social]

@greem @bloor Denise?

[mrrmot@oldbytes.space]

@qwyrdo ...you do know that there actually used to be a commercial HTML editor called HoTMetaL way back when, right? @mansr @me_ @bloor

[tautology@infosec.exchange]

@bloor I do find it random what TLAs people pronounce and what they don't. I mean obviously "sequel" is superior to "ess cue ell": there's no contest in that one.

But I've met people who say VEE AYE (vi) and EEE TEE CEE (et-cee).

On the other hand, there's a pit in the inferno reserved for people who say JOT instead of JAY DOUBLE-U TEE.

[mrrmot@oldbytes.space]

@countablenewt I will always treasure the memory of a cow-orker who once pronounced SQL*Plus as "squeal! splat! plus!" (I am well aware he was not the only one) @greem @bloor