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

[lori@cambrian.social]

@robinadams @bloor Post-GRE SQL is graduate-level SQL.

SQL is absolutely squirrel, though, it's where you squirrel away the things.

[nf3xn@mastodon.social]

@LordCaramac @bloor yes because you squirrel away all that data, keep backups that you forget to check and which then grow into trees.

[ehurtley@pdx.social]

@bloor SQL is clearly pronounced “squeal”. MS SQL is “mice squeal”

[underdarkgis@fosstodon.org]

@hareldan @bloor first time I heard 'sequel', I thought people were pranking me

[rachel@norfolk.social]

@bloor presumably, BIND shall now be known as Bernard.

[chfkch@ruhr.social]

@bloor
Actually it is Donuts.

[srtcd424@mas.to]

@bloor Denis, denis!

[rachel@norfolk.social]

@bloor and, for the record, I’ve always described WWW as the Wibbly Wobbly Web

[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