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Acronyms vs Initialisms
No one is going to try pronounce Fbi, it’s awkward.
There are terms that bridge the Acronym/Initialism divide. SQL-Sequel, URL-Earl and GUI-Gooey are some that come up fairly regularly in my line of work.
The bottom line is; Language is used to communicate concepts. We are lazy and do it as efficiently as we can get away with. The rules have changed a LOT to get us where we are today. It would be blind hubris to think the change will stop just because we don’t like it.
Never heard someone say earl for URL and I would not understand if someone did. That's like if i pronounced FBI freebie
I've been in IT for over 30 years and never once heard someone try to make an acronym of URL.
Funny enough... I do say S.Q.L or U.R.L 😅
Squirrel and Earl
Me too. And I say them on the World Wide Web, which is quicker to say than the WWW.
Dub Dub Dub
That never really caught on though.
On the W.W.W or Www?
SQL, back in 2015, officially transitioned from being pronounced Sequel to being pronounced EssQueueEll.
I still call it Sequel.
Then again, I say U R L, but also pronounce URI as Yuri. I also say L O L instead of Loll and I R L instead of Earl.
And then there’s mixed acronyms like Jaypeg and Empeg.
Yup, those are contested