How you do pronounce MySQL? I've spent a good few years correcting those who say it 'mysequel', firm in the knowledge that My.S.Q.L. was correct, only to discover today from co-founder David Azmark that I have been sorely deluded. Instead, I should have taken lessons from Ali G.

In the austere confines of London's ancient Royal Geopgrahical Society today, Azmark poured forth on many aspects of MySQL's history and its future under Sun.

Among them was the history of the name. MySQL is named after the daughter of the other co-founder Michael Widenius, as Wikipedia already knows. According to Azmark, the correct pronounciation of My is 'Me', and the correct way to pronounce MySQL is and always has been 'Me.S.Q.L.', making it sound to the English ear like Ali G's database. Azmark then proceded to pronounce it as in 'my', noting that now even he's started referring to it this way. I suspect the widely used pronunciation will stick, though there is something about the original pronunciation that I really do like - it is a great prefix. Just think if you were running it on MeSUSE.