Comments on: ★ Char or Car?

By: Dennis Bergkamp

Dennis Bergkamp — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:05:25 +0000

How about DATABASE??

Is that day-ter-base or dar-ter-base????

(Runs and hides before the flamewars start!!!)

By: Lacey

Lacey — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:59:06 +0000

SQL: sequel for me. When I read my first SQL book, 1998, the first paragraph stated that it was pronounced “sequel”. Spelling out the letters takes too long for me…and seems too nerdy.

I’ve long wondered about char and car…I consider car correct, because it is the beginning of the pronounciation for the entire word – character. However, I now realize that I don’t apply the same thing to the var – I don’t pronounce it with the vare from variable. Char just sounds wrong to me…like I’m going to eat it.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:48:36 +0000

BPEL = bee-pull (like people)

That’s how we pronounce it at Active Endpoints. IBM and SAP evidently agree, because they created a human interaction spec for BPEL called BPEL4People. You wouldn’t pronounce this bipple4pipple, would you?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:47:07 +0000

Well, I guess it could be worse...

We could call VI... 'Six'

:-p

By: Poll Results - The Most Used Pronunciations » Eddie Awad’s Blog

Poll Results - The Most Used Pronunciations » Eddie Awad’s Blog — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 06:23:43 +0000

[...] A few months ago I wrote a couple of posts about how I pronounce some of the technical “words”. I also included a few polls to let you vote on your favourite pronunciation. Well, I noticed that I have never published the final results… until now. [...]

By: david brower

david brower — Tue, 09 May 2006 20:04:52 +0000

Let’s see, when I was in Berkeley in the early 80s, VI was pronounced both ways, except by emacs fans who said “vile”.

People who say sequel were exposed to it (or influenced people who were) through System R, before DB2 was released in 1985. Those who came later are more likely to use letters. “Squirrel” is amusing if one realizes both what SQL is to Codd’s relational calculus, and the way Scientology considers ‘squirrel technology’ an adulterated and unauthorized version of the truth as revealed by the founder. (http://www.xenu.net)

char as car comes from literalists and ex-LISPers.

char as in charcoal seems about equally prevalent and more likely in use by those who like alliteration and the perceived symmetry of pronouncing all the letters in ‘char star’. I’d guess those with roots in consonent happy languages prefer the harder flavor.

BLOB is an abortion of retronyming. The inventor meant the plain word ‘blobl’, see http://www.cvalde.net/misc/blob_true_history.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLOB.

I don’t much like ‘klob”, and use cee-lob, which I think goes back to hard consonant preference.

BPEL rhymes with nipple. Anyone who says otherwise is a prude.

-dB

By: notebook

notebook — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:31:50 +0000

I other words, WC=wait cry…. SQL=sun quack loud

By: Mauricio

Mauricio — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:06:00 +0000

As most of the people say in Brazil:

SQL – esse-kay-elee (spelled out in portuguese) PL/SQL – Pay-elee esse-kay-elee CHAR – Always char. BLOB, CLOB – As written VI – vay-ee (spelled out in portuguese) WSDL – dablio-esse-day-elee Linux – Lee nukes

The consonants p (pay), d (day), q (kay), v (vay) are really short.

By: me

me — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:45:35 +0000

Obviously there are people in the world that are sad enough to think that this actually matters.

By: Richard Wendel

Richard Wendel — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:31:21 +0000

I actually go with Char as 'care' is in char-acter...

amazingly enough, however, I still pronounce varchar as varcar (easier than varcare I suppose...sounds like an health insurance company)