How do you pronounce PostgreSQL?
 

How does one pronounce "PostgreSQL?"

Is it:

post-gray-sequel
postgrezquil
postgrrrsequel
post-g-r-e-sequel

For that matter (since most of my conversation about Linux is online and I don't hear people say these things), how do you pronounce some of the commands and directories, such as:

fsck (it looks like F-sock, but I know it's "filesystem check")

how about:

/etc (I say "et-see," but is it supposed to be "etcetera?")

I laugh at some of the command names, even though I know they're that way for historical design reasons ("cp" for example takes less memory than "copy" -- but I'll admit it took me forever to figure out how to copy files because of that).

ummm... don't think i've ever been asked to pronounce it outside of my head... i always think

post-gres-q-l


i wouldn't sweat it too much. most people don't know that it's pronounced Lee-nux and not linux.... and, again, no one really cares. :)

Straight from the horses mouth:

http://www3.us.postgresql.org/postgresql.mp3


Speck

Thanks!
 

Post grez cue el, all!

:)

Tim

Wasn't there a small article in Linux Format a while ago saying that Linus himself was sick of correcting the majority of people that call him L-eye-nus (like the Peanuts character), and so now doesn't really care if he's called Leenus or L-eye-nus. Wouldn't that mean then the the OS can reasonably be called L-eye-nux? And after all the time I've been teaching myself to call it Leenux aswell!

I've always pronounced it as:
Post-grè-skill (post-greh-skill, sorry about the accented letter).

Also, how should the acronym GNU be pronounced?
GEE--EN--YOU, or NEW (either the English way: NYEW or the American way: NU)?

GNU
 

I read that it is pronounced:

guh-NOO

... as in Gnip Gnop (anyone remember that game?)

well the correct way that even Linus calls Linux is pronounced lynn-nix just to clear things up cause i hate it when people call it l-eye-nix

:)... just fyi, there's a small section on the kernel.org ftp that has a couple of .wav files (or maybe mp3... can't remember), one of which is linus himself pronouncing it "leenux"...

i still always call it lin-ux :)

Yeah, yeah. I hear ya! I'm not saying that it should be called L-eye-nux, hell, I've managed to train myself into calling Leenux (sorry, I just can't get it to end in ix), just that some scamp @ Linux Format (I think it was that mag, may have been PCPlus) reckoned that it could reasonably be called L-eye-nux. Just for clarification, I also hate it when people who should know how to pronounce my pseudonym properly (i.e. people I know personally) pronounce it Th-ee-mox. It's Th-eye-mox.

like this:

I'm a G-noo

I'm a Gnu
How do you do?
You really ought to know
who's who
I'm a Gnu
Spelled G-N-U
I'm g-not a camel or a kangaroo
So let me introduce
I'm g-neither man or moose
Oh G-no, G-no, G-no - I'm a Gnu