Received: from localhost (IDENT:root@hectic-1.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.68.203]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA42439 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 22:17:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu) Received: from alumni.caltech.edu (lockhart@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA11921; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 02:16:02 GMT Sender: lockhart@hub.org Message-ID: <37AF8B62.58438CD7@alumni.caltech.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 02:16:02 +0000 From: Thomas Lockhart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Eisentraut CC: Lamar Owen , "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Soares" , Postgres Hackers List Subject: Re: Pronunciation of "PostgreSQL" (was: Re: [HACKERS] New man pages) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > I have chosen to use "Postgres" within the docs, as a shorter (and > > > pronouncable ;) form of our product. "PostgreSQL" appears in all > > How hard is it to say "Postgresquel", really? Don't tell me you've been > > saying "Postgres cue ell".....;-) I'll bet that even the coiners of the term have some differences in their pronunciation. For the record, I use "Postgres" usually, and "Postgres-cue-ell" when forced... - Thomas Since we cap the "S", however you pronounce "SQL" should probably be how you do the end of "PostgreSQL". Lamar, are you a "ess-quel" person? That may be a regional dialect. Don't even get me started on that: it took me years to get over my strong inclination to use "hacker" to refer to a bad, clueless programmer... -- Thomas Lockhart lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu South Pasadena, California