Re: Linux Phonics

I have long subscribed to Novell Connection magazine, and thought I
would give everyone a link to how Novell says "SuSE" is pronounced:
http://www.novell.com/connectionmagazine/2004/05/tech_talk_1.html

In the Linux Lingo section:
SUSE (pronounced soo-za)

-Erik

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:26:43 -0700, brian <lists001@brianchristie.com> wrote:
> On Monday, March 28, 2005 12:17 PM Ric Fischer wrote
> > On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:34:30 -0700, Jared Anderson
> > <PluggedIn@thegoldenedge.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > MySQL:
> > > ======
> > > my sequel?
> > > my S.Q.L.?
> >
> > Sequel.
> >
> > Why? Because that was its original name. You can (usually) tell a
> > newcomer to RDBMS by the way they pronounce this. The original name
> > for this was
> >
> > Structured English QUEry Language
> >
> > Hence, its proper name was SEQUEL. For legal reasons, they had to
> > change the name to SQL as another company had already trademarked
> > SEQUEL.
> >
> > According to ANSI (usually pronounced as a word), we are supposed to
> > pronounce it letter-by-letter as in ESS-QUEUE-ELL. (I'd provide a link
> > directly to ANSI's document, but their site was too slow.)
> >
> > An excellent source for much of this stuff is:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
>
> From the official MySQL documentation:
> " The official way to pronounce ``MySQL'' is ``My Ess Que Ell'' (not ``my
> sequel''), but we don't mind if you pronounce it as ``my sequel'' or in some
> other localized way."
> --http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/what-is.html#IDX25
>
> See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL
>
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