I think this has been covered in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1687205 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1687205 On a related note, a number of u

I think this has been covered in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1687205 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1687205 On a related note, a number of us from IBM pronounced "SQL" as "Squeal", mostly to irritate Ted Codd when he visited Almaden.