[enave]

Maybe, but it's a much better name than mysql. I feel like a little kid every time I say "my" anything.

[kirubakaran]

"My" of MySQL is Monty's daughter.

"He lives in Helsinki with his second wife Anna and daughter Maria (after whom MariaDB was named), and has a daughter My (after whom MySQL was named)[14] and a son Max (giving the name for MaxDB) from his first marriage" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius

[Grishnakh]

Also, I'm pretty sure most of us are mispronouncing MySQL: IIRC, "My" (the Finnish name of his daughter) is pronounced like English "Me".

[sluukkonen]

The y is pronounced like the ü in über.

[kaitai]

A tip that works for some: lips to say "oooo" (like an owl, or someone seeing something shiny for the first time), tongue to say "eeee". Well, worth a try.

[CamperBob2]

Actually it's more like the 'j' in Eyjafjallajökull.

[zaroth]

Wait, I think you are all just fucking with me...

[rpazyaquian]

"MooSQL"

[sluukkonen]

Not the American pronounciation!

[schoen]

The ü in über is pronounced [y]. I wonder if IPA originally got this symbol from Finnish orthography, then.

[SQLite]

I don't speak Finnish. But I did once hear David Axmark pronounce My's name, and to my ear it sounded like "Mih" - an "M" followed by a short vowel similar to the vowel in "bit". In other words, My's name is the same as Mitt Romney's first name, just without the "t" at the end.

[schoen]

You might want IPA [ɪ]. (But another comment in this thread suggested [y], a sound that English doesn't have, and which is close in several ways to English [i] in "me" or [ɪ] in "bit".)

[jeremycole]

My is a Swedish name, not a Finnish one, as Monty is a Swedish-speaking Finn. It's pronounced similar to "Myeuh", so "Myeuh Ess Kuh Ell".