Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn’t translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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    11 months ago

    SQL

    Nobody but me wants to adopt this, but I insist this should be “squeal”.

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      11 months ago

      It’s weird, when I say SQL I pronounce it sequel. But I pronounce MySQL as my-s-q-l. Never thought about squeal. Maybe that’s for sqlite? Squealite