How to pronounce MySQL
Today I learned (or re-learned), that the "My" in MySQL does not stand for the English word my but for the Swedish name My, which is the name of the daughter of MySQL co-founder Michael Widenius. ♡
The name My was introduced by Tove Jansson for the Moomins character Little My.
According to the Words & Stuff blog: "Turns out that she was named after the Greek letter mu; for the Finnish pronunciation of Myy, see the video. In English, it turns out that her name is pronounced like the English word my (/maɪ/), rhyming with the English word hi."
So you could pronounce My as [ˈmyː] or as [maɪ].
This is in addition to the well-known discussion about how to pronounce SQL, which I will not further dive into here.
By the way, the MySQL documentation defines the official pronunciation: "The official way to pronounce “MySQL” is “My Ess Que Ell” (not “my sequel”), but we do not mind if you pronounce it as “my sequel” or in some other localized way.", but it seems that when speaking Swedish the MySQL developers also say "mü-ess-ku-ell" (source).
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