…But I’ve only ever heard SSL pronounced as its three letters. Why not like “Cecil”? Or “Sizzle”?

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  • Gil (he/they)@beehaw.org
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    I second “sizzle” or “sissle.” My partner pronounces API as “appy” and it’s the best thing ever.

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    In French, we just pronounce it as three letters, so I was very confused at first when my English-speaking colleagues were referring to sequels of apparently nothing.

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    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.

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      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”

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      I always pronounced it as ess-cue-ell but gave up on it when everyone in professional environments said “sequel”.