when people call DAOs "dows" instead of D-A-Os

[beginner99]

I say S-Q-L and it's perfectly ok.

infact "sequel" is kind of retarded as it once was called like this before it was renamed to SQL decades ago.

 

[reallyscrued]

No, that is not why people use the hard 'g'. It is because in English, there aren't any short words that start with the soft 'g' and don't start with 'j'. Nobody says "hey, there goes a get plane!" Or, "Mike Tyson has a mean gab!". Gem is the only one I can even think of, and that is French. Seeing 'gif' should lead most native English speakers to assume a hard 'g' is the proper way to pronounce the word.

That is, in fact, the prevailing reason why people insist on using a hard 'G'.

Your examples are meaningless. Any short words? Who or what defines what's a short word vs a long word?

Jet plane? Jab? Gif.

Deal with it.

There is no convention for many words and terms in English.

Just pronounce it the way the inventor intended.