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By the use of "an", I learned that I have been pronouncing SQLite wrong. The maintainers clearly prefer the spelling out of SQL in the title. I've always been
by reduxredacted 15y ago
By the use of "an", I learned that I have been pronouncing SQLite wrong. The maintainers clearly prefer the spelling out of SQL in the title.
I've always been on the "sequel" side of pronouncing SQL (hey, it's no worse than "scuzzy" for SCSI), which morphed SQLite into "Sequelite". I never realized how bizarre that sounded (almost more like a material than a database).
- ebzlo 15y agoSo does that become S-Q-L-ite or S-Q-Lite, you think?
- reduxredacted 15y agoGood point. I was going for SQL-Lite. But being wrong (and hearing enough people say "lie-nux" [and to be clear, I am not mocking ... we read things and form our own pronunciation because we often don't hear them said] ...) I decided to google it. This isn't necessarily authoritative or well researched, but it appears that S-Q-L-Lite is correct: http://blog.cleverly.com/permalinks/247.html http://blog.cleverly.com/permalinks/247.html
- palish 15y agoI say "S-Q-Lite".
- MostAwesomeDude 15y agoAs an aside, to follow Linus' pronunciation, it is Lee-nucks, from the Finnish way of pronouncing "Linus." Americans are used to a different pronunciation of the same name and thus generally adopted a different way of saying "Linux." Language is fascinating!
- Muzza 15y agoLinus is a native speaker of Swedish, not Finnish.
- MostAwesomeDude 15y agoThe Internets confirms this. I didn't know that; I learned something today!
- k33l0r 15y agoThe pronunciation of 'Linus' is pretty much the same in Swedish and Finnish, though.
- Muzza 15y agoSurely the U differs. To Sweden-Swedish ears at least, Linus in Finnish sounds like Linos.
- StavrosK 15y agoI say S-Q-L-ite.
- kelnos 15y agoI and most people I know call it "sequelite". That works for me...
- StavrosK 15y agoEsquelite sounds pretty good too...
- alastairpat 15y agoFrom what I can understand, that's actually a difference between Commonwealth and American English. I'm Australian and always spell out acronyms when speaking them - saying something like 'sequel' or 'scuzzy' just sounds weird to me.
- petercooper 15y agoJust in case anyone cares because I did the research on this a few weeks ago (including watching its creator say it numerous times) it's S-Q-L-Lite. Yeah, that seems like a duplication of the L but there you have it.
- nhebb 15y agoI've always pronounced it that way in my head, which has lead to a few typos searching for "SQLlite" or coding up a "SQLliteConnection". If I'd just learned to pronounce it wrong I would have been typing it right all along.