According to things I have had to edit, it's supposed to be ess queue ell. Which is ridic, because no one around here at the company even pronounces it that way.

it occurs to me that I've been saying fack longer than I've been saying you-are-ell, maybe that has something to do with my attitude towards them being different.

I've always pronounced SQL as squirrel. In my head.

We have sequel servers. In which we run ess-queue-ell. I'm not sure if the sequel server is actually the SQL server and the dbas use both in a single sentence.

Yup, DH uses them interchangeably. I don't think he notices that he switches back and forth.

Sometimes I notice when I switch. Usually I try to say the letters but often laziness wins out.

FAQ is fack.

Work is very very self-devised acronym heavy. Some are pronounced like letters, some spoken as words. Half the terms I use, I have no idea what they stand for. And neither does anyone else. Once upon a time, the new employee handbook came with a list of acronyms and what they stood for. They ditched it somewhere around the point it got to 10 single spaced, two-sided pages. It's crackers. They give Quakers a run for the money on acronyms.

NASA is still the acronym king, right?

eta: Or is it the military?

I suspect the military's acronyms creep into daily speech more than NASA's, but within a professional setting, they're neck and neck.

Disney is frighteningly acronym heavy internally. All the resorts and properties are referred to by three letter acronyms. Disneyland Resort is DLR, Tokyo Disney Sea is TDS, I still almost always say DCA instead of Disneys California Adventure. Imaginering is WDI. Even the attractions get them. When I was working on Space Mountain the official designation was SPAC but most of us like to use SPAM.

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I now remember that when I got hired at Disney in the 90's part of my hiring package was a mutilpage document that a listing of the most common company acronyms and their meanings.