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dan,

I prefer the S-Q-L pronunciation too, but the "See-Quel" ers are probably
more historically correct,

as i believe SQL was originally referred to as Structured English Query
Language

cheers
Colin.W
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 7:31 PM
Subject: RE: 5.3 upgrade


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Mike Berman
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:51 PM
> >
> > Corbet, What do you mean by 'your own cum'?
> > Mike
>
> Ahem.  Would I be too PC to ask that we spell it "cume"?
>
> That's twice I've spilt water down my shirt today.
>
> BTW, I've always pronounced it "kyoom" (like "cute" with an "m" instead of
a
> "t"), although I've heard it pronounced "koom", which doesn't do it for
me.
>
> Kinda the same thing with RPG's Z-ADD; when I used it, I always pronounced
> it "zadd".
>
> Another shop I worked at drove me crazy calling SQL "sequel", even though
> they didn't have the Sequel product.  What's wrong with S-Q-L?
>
> db
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