Denny Vrandečić on Nostr: TIL that the "My" in MySQL is not the English word my but the Swedish name My, for ...

TIL that the "My" in MySQL is not the English word my but the Swedish name My, for the daughter of #MySQL co-founder Michael Widenius. ♡

The name My was introduced by Tove Jansson for the #Moomins character Little My, who is named after the Greek letter mu.

So you could pronounce My as [ˈmyː] or as [maɪ].

Never mind how to pronounce SQL.

MySQL documentation defines the official #pronunciation as “My Ess Que Ell” but the devs in Swedish say "mü-ess-ku-ell".

Sources in reply.

#linguistics