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

[truh@shark.community]

@bloor squeal

[oheso@ieji.de]

@robinadams @bloor That makes more sense than any other pronunciation.

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@bloor I think SQL should be pronounced like "squirrel".

[hareldan@mapstodon.space]

@bloor html is pronounced 'hotmail'

[furrybeta@shark.community]

@bloor DNS can certainly be a menace

[fourt4@mastodonapp.uk]

@jimfl @neil @bloor arssssse

[count_01@mastodon.social]

@bloor In Quebec it's pronounced "den-KNEE"

[hwll@sunny.garden]

@bloor done

[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.