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Yoo-fi? Yoo-ef-ee?

They shoulda made it easier to pronounce if they wanted people to call it that

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[โ€“] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those are the same people that write "squeal" queries to get results out of a database.

[โ€“] frank@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that's madness. First of all it's sequel.

Second, fun fact, it's a backronym! SQL came after a cease and desist for calling it SEQUEL, such that it could be pronounced the same.

So yes, you can totally say Sequel instead of S-Q-L, it's even historically accurate to do so!