• Nah, there are no such rules, like anything else, initialisms are defined by speakers of the language, and that’s what industry professionals seem to use most often.

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      what industry professionals seem to use most often.

      Lol ok, if you want to change to that set of rules, I am an industry professional. Fairly deep into my IT career, and I will absolutely get on to any of my people if I see “Scuzzy” (Not that that particular one will ever come up again, fairly out of date lmao) or “Sequel” or any of that other bull

      • Maybe it’s a regional thing, or maybe you’re just a hothead, hard to tell.

        Either way, in my region, “scuzzy” and “sequel” are the dominant pronunciations for SCSI and SQL in my field.