Timeline for What is the correct pronunciation of SQLite?
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| Oct 2, 2020 at 15:10 | comment | added | Arthur Tacca | Sorry, reading back my comment I realise I worded it very badly. I mentioned "granite" as an example of a rock ending in "-ite" but I didn't mean it as an example of the sound. I agree SQLite has to rhyme with "light" – maybe graphite would be a better example. It's just the initial "l" of the "light" in your answer I was taking issue with. As I said, most of the time you wouldn't even be able to hear as a difference after the preceding ell, I just mentioned it because spelling out "ell light" (rather than "ell ight"?) implies a misleading etymology. | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 12:10 | comment | added | Mitch | @ArthurTacca That doesn't sound right. Listen to the author say it. It sounds like /es kju el 'ait/ (with a bit of southern monphthongization like /... 'at/). It does not sound at all like /'græ nɪt/ (especially with the stress). It also wouldn't make sense at all to not pronounce it rhyming with 'light'. | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 9:11 | comment | added | Arthur Tacca | The main bolded part of this answer gets wrong the main subtlty: the creator makes it clear that the ending is "ite", as in rocks like "granite", not "Lite" like light. So it's ' ... ite' not ' ... light' (at least if you want to match the author's interpretation). Admittedly this distinction gets lost in the preceding ell sound if you say it quickly, but spelling out "light" in the written pronounciation is still misleading. | |
| Feb 16, 2018 at 18:20 | comment | added | Krythic | I changed my accepted answer to you, because it is better thought out, and fluently articulated. Thank you. | |
| Feb 16, 2018 at 18:19 | vote | accept | Krythic | ||
| Feb 16, 2018 at 15:58 | history | answered | Mitch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |