…But I’ve only ever heard SSL pronounced as its three letters. Why not like “Cecil”? Or “Sizzle”?
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I just pronounce it exactly like reading the letters individually, because I’m actually a human being.
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.
I always pronounced it as ess-cue-ell but gave up on it when everyone in professional environments said “sequel”.
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”
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.
Ever since I saw this XKCD I’ve called it Squill
People who use tabs after punctuation 🥲
I second “sizzle” or “sissle.” My partner pronounces API as “appy” and it’s the best thing ever.
That’s adorable.
How about Es-Queue-Ell?
I’m glad this is top comment, I thought I was weird for a moment there
