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...But I've only ever heard SSL pronounced as its three letters. Why not like "Cecil"? Or "Sizzle"?

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[โ€“] khendron@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always pronounced it "sequel", but ever since I attended a talk by the authors of PHP and MySQL Web Programming, and they pronounced it Ess-Cue-Ell I've been second guessing myself.

[โ€“] eddythompson@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

What I remember attending a PHP event in ~2009 was one of the old veterans there saying:

Only Microsoft folks say "Sequel Server", we say "My S Q L"

[โ€“] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] cocobean@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

This introduces a non-trivial increase in syllabatic inefficiencies