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

[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

[d1@autistics.life]

@bloor "DNS the menace"

[greem@cyberplace.social]

@WiteWulf @bloor that one completely passes over my head I'm afraid!

[robjlow@mathstodon.xyz]

@bloor I assume somebody has done an 'Anyone for DNS?' bit somewhere, but there were too many replies for me to bother checking.

[witewulf@cyberplace.social]

@greem @bloor David Duchovny’s character from Twin Peaks, Denise.

The first Denise that sprang to my mind, after Debbie Harry and Denis 🥰

[susibryant@mastodon.social]

@mansr @bloor
I prefer Squirrel and Dance

[bencotterill@mastodon.social]

@bloor @TheBreadmonkey Dunnis.

[4nduril@troet.cafe]

I've got a HoTTiP for you

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@bloor Works for me!

[machinelordzero@mastodon.social]

@bloor do people really pronounce it like that?

[moule@mastodon.moule.world]

@bloor Is DNS the MNS good at TNS like BNS?

[mansr@society.oftrolls.com]

@mrrmot @qwyrdo @me_ @bloor A reference to the printing process, I presume.

[dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org]

@bloor We had a chance to pronounce SCSI "sexy" but we went with "scuzzy". I dunno about this industry.

[rob_t_firefly@masto.hackers.town]

@mansr @qwyrdo @me_ @bloor To me HTML was always "hate mail."

[mansr@society.oftrolls.com]

@Rob_T_Firefly @qwyrdo @me_ @bloor It so happens that "hot" is Swedish for "threat." Makes the name of the mail service a little funnier.

[rogerbw@discordian.social]

@bloor It's worth talking about the "squeal server" just for the Looks I get.

[w_b@mastodon.world]

@bloor
@jpmens

Years ago at work, there was a consultant that would pronounce it deenis. We started starting he had deenis envy.