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.

The following are the poll results. Hover your mouse pointer […]

My last post about how to pronounce a few “words” generated several comments, some of them were funny. “see-quel” was the clear winner in how to pronounce SQL.

To continue having fun and to settle once and for all how the following “words” are pronounced, I will let democracy take its course in the form of […]

This post has no real value except to satisfy a curiosity I have had since I started developing Oracle applications. Through out my career as an Oracle developer, almost every time I meet or listen to someone I hear different pronunciation for a few common acronyms and datatypes. For example:

SQL: I pronounce it “see-quel”, others […]