Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > > I don't think so ... we changed the name 4+ years ago, and, quite frankly,
> > > have worked for 4+ years at building an identity around that ... ppl know
> > > what PostgreSQL is, and what it represents ... could you imagine someone
> > > changing Apache, or Linux, or Oracle?  I really don't see what is so hard
> > > about pronouncing Post-Gres-QL ... *shrug*
> > 
> > The name is certainly ugly, but it's got history behind it: it gives
> > appropriate credit to those who went before us.  (Don't forget that
> > the roots of this project go back twenty-odd years.)  There's unlikely
> > to be much support around here for changing the name, no matter what
> > alternative is offered.
> > 
> > FWIW, I say "post-gres-cue-ell", same as Marc.
> 
> I think we need to get this put up on the main page in big bold letters as
> one of those "dictionary pronounciation" sort of things so that it the
> first thing that ppl learn when they hit our site :)

Or an embedded audio file?  :)

Vince.
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