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What is your least favourite acronym? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 10 months ago by thatsTheCatch to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn't translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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[–] kux@lemm.ee 36 points 10 months ago (4 children)

SQL when pronounced as sequel. Squall or even squirrel would have been nicer imo

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Their original product was called SEQUEL. Structured English Query Language. They got sued by a company called sequel so changed it to SQL, but everybody still calls it sequel.

[–] kux@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

oh cool. my dislike for it was out of ignorance as often the case. thanks for letting me know

[–] eluvatar@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

So same as JS then

[–] aulin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I hear SQL way more than Sequel. Luckily, since I don't like hearing it as sequel.

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

Squeel

[–] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago

Ive worked with tons of DB devs and admins. Nobody really seems to care. A bunch of us say "sequel" and a bunch of us say "ess cue ell", even in the same answer-and-response in a conversation and nobody seems to bat an eye. You'll get a comment or a smirk if you say "squirrel" or "squeal", but that's about it.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I vote "squeal".