Poll Results – The Most Used Pronunciations
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 over the bars to see the number of votes: (more…)
Filed in Oracle, Technology with 2 Comments | Tags: pronunciationsee-quel wins, but what about the others?
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 the following short polls:
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Cast your vote and let the most used pronunciation win!
Filed in Oracle, Technology with 6 Comments | Tags: lob, pl/sql, pronunciation, sqlChar or Car?
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 just spell it “S-Q-L”
- CHAR (also VARCHAR): I pronounce it “char” as in charcoal, others pronounce it “car”
- CLOB: I pronounce it “see-lob”, others pronounce it “klob”
- BLOB: I pronounce it “bee-lob”, others pronounce it “blob”
- WSDL: I pronounce it… well, I just spell it: “W-S-D-L”, others pronounce it “wizdel”
- BPEL: I pronounce it “bee-pl”, others pronounce it…well, I have not heard anyone pronouncing it differently yet. In fact, the rhyme goes: “BPEL is good for the people”.
The question is: is there a “right” way to pronounce technical terms? Does it matter? For me, I just use whatever is easier on my tongue.
Here is a quick poll I just created on dPolls.com, a cool (uses AJAX) and free online poll service:
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