Just in case anyone cares because I did the research on this a few weeks ago (including watching its creator say it numerous times) it's S-Q-L-Lite. Yeah, that seems like a duplication of the L but there you have it.

I've always pronounced it that way in my head, which has lead to a few typos searching for "SQLlite" or coding up a "SQLliteConnection". If I'd just learned to pronounce it wrong I would have been typing it right all along.

I and most people I know call it "sequelite". That works for me...

Esquelite sounds pretty good too...

So does that become S-Q-L-ite or S-Q-Lite, you think?

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

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!

Linus is a native speaker of Swedish, not Finnish.

The pronunciation of 'Linus' is pretty much the same in Swedish and Finnish, though.

Surely the U differs. To Sweden-Swedish ears at least, Linus in Finnish sounds like Linos.

The Internets confirms this. I didn't know that; I learned something today!

I say "S-Q-Lite".

I say S-Q-L-ite.

From what I can understand, that's actually a difference between Commonwealth and American English.

I'm Australian and always spell out acronyms when speaking them - saying something like 'sequel' or 'scuzzy' just sounds weird to me.