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Re:"SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed... by reduxredacted on Friday July 29, 2011 @07:06PM (#2824209)
Good point. I was going for SQL-Lite. But being wrong (and hearing enough people say "lie-nux" [and to be clear, I am not mocking ... we read things and form our own pronunciation because we often don't hear them said] ...) I decided to google it.

This isn't necessarily authoritative or well researched, but it appears that S-Q-L-Lite is correct: http://blog.cleverly.com/permalinks/247.html

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Re:"SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed... by MostAwesomeDude on Friday July 29, 2011 @11:38PM (#2824789)
As an aside, to follow Linus' pronunciation, it is Lee-nucks, from the Finnish way of pronouncing "Linus." Americans are used to a different pronunciation of the same name and thus generally adopted a different way of saying "Linux."

Language is fascinating!

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Re:"SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed... by Muzza on Saturday July 30, 2011 @01:53AM (#2825019)
Linus is a native speaker of Swedish, not Finnish.
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Re:"SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed... by k33l0r on Saturday July 30, 2011 @05:22AM (#2825360)
The pronunciation of 'Linus' is pretty much the same in Swedish and Finnish, though.
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Re:"SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed... by Muzza on Saturday July 30, 2011 @01:51PM (#2826234)
Surely the U differs. To Sweden-Swedish ears at least, Linus in Finnish sounds like Linos.
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Re:"SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed... by MostAwesomeDude on Saturday July 30, 2011 @02:24AM (#2825068)
The Internets confirms this. I didn't know that; I learned something today!
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Re:"SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed... by palish on Friday July 29, 2011 @08:49PM (#2824465)
I say "S-Q-Lite".
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