An acronym is a kind of initialism that can be pronounced like a word e.g. NASA. Your reasoning for why it can’t be pronounced as a word (“sequel”) depends on it not being an acronym. But, since many people do pronounce it that way, it is, in fact, an acronym and can be pronounced that way.
New one I just became aware of:
How does everyone say SQL?
I go back and forth between “Ess Cue Ell”, “Sequel”, and “You Fucking Whore”
This is what we do at work.
My dad has used SQL forever and calls it “Sequel.”
Ess-Cue-Elle
It’s an initialisation, not an acronym, so it’s only:
Ess-queue-ell.
Surely anything else is madness
Your logic is circular
Sorry, I don’t understand
An acronym is a kind of initialism that can be pronounced like a word e.g. NASA. Your reasoning for why it can’t be pronounced as a word (“sequel”) depends on it not being an acronym. But, since many people do pronounce it that way, it is, in fact, an acronym and can be pronounced that way.
Holy shit, I completely forgot about using the term sequel - you are absolutely correct!
And yet everyone I know who has used it pre-2010s ish says ‘sequel’
Yeah, I’m just a dumb-ass that completely forgot
Depends on the context
MySQL: my es que el
SQL Server: sequel Server
PostgreSQL: Postgress
or by itself just es que el
Really, my ess cue ell? I say mysequel 100% of the time. But I’m trying to get into the Primagen’s My Squeal pronunciation
I call it sequel but I’ve heard squirrel and squeal.
I like to call it “Squeal” sometimes, but usually I call it “Sequel”.