On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:14:28 +1000 Klint Gore <kg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:10:15 +0930 (CST), Michael Talbot-Wilson <mtw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How, really, do people pronounce PostgreSQL? > > we just use postgres. Post Gress is what I've heard also. > > > They say that SQL should be pronounced "Sequel" and I've even met > > people who do that. > > I hate that. It's an acronym not a word - you say the letters. Uh, an acronym _is_ a word. That's the definition. (NASA, WAC, RADAR, etc.) If it's pronounced as a list of letters, then it's not really an acronym, even though it is in common usage (cf. TLA, ETLA, etc.) Though after reading the Wiki on TLA, I see that we languaage purists have tried to reclaim acronym by retrofitting the definition of TLA to be three letter _abbreviation_. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tla Sorry for the digression. {-; -karl
