I remember watching a presentation by the SQLite creator/maintainer Richard Hipps. You can watch yourself, its one of these videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sqlite+richard+hipp

In it he says "pronounce it however you want" - so there is no "official" pronounciation.

I remember watching a presentation by the SQLite creator/maintainer Richard Hipps (you can watch yourself, its one of these videos)

In it he says "pronounce it however you want" - so there is no "official" pronunciation.