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Re: LinuxTag wrapup

Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xs4all.nl>

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From: "Jeroen T. Vermeulen" <jtv@xs4all.nl>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
Cc: Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-07-04T19:16:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 12:10:52AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
 
> You made me remember that some time ago a non-tech fellow presented me
> as giving a talk about "Postgresol" ... the audience had quite a laugh.
> It seems nobody thought about instructing him on how to pronounce the
> thing ... it was rather embarrasing anyway.

I once ran into a case of "Postgresequel."  Asked the presenter about it
afterwards and he apologized, citing prolonged stay in the US where, he
said, everybody pronounced SQL as Sequel all the time.


Jeroen