Bro I heard someone pronounce it squeal before π«
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And if they wanted Qt pronounced any way beside "cutie," they shouldn't have spelled it "cutie."
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Now Iβm never going to read DNS the same way again π
Oh, don't be DeNSe, it's pronounced SQueaL π·
I will always judge people who say "sequel"
I self-taught SQL on the job and was denied a promotion because I said S-Q-L instead of Sequel. The supervisor that was interviewing me for the job ended the interview early because of it. This was almost 10 years ago now and I'm still salty about it.
Same, but I'm willing to team up with them against people who call it squeal.
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Itβs always Dennis
I didn't need to know this.
Ffs.
And it's exactly what a name server deserves.
Yehzz
We used to pronounce UPDTE as "upditty" (this is a JCL reference. Be happy if you don't get it)