What is your least favourite acronym?
What is your least favourite acronym?
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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SQL when pronounced as sequel. Squall or even squirrel would have been nicer imo
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.
oh cool. my dislike for it was out of ignorance as often the case. thanks for letting me know
So same as JS then
I hear SQL way more than Sequel. Luckily, since I don't like hearing it as sequel.
Squeel
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.
I vote "squeal".