LINQ is pronounced link, "LIN Cue" or Lynx

A minor note - at TechEd in Orlando, many attendees decided to pronounce Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) as either "lin cue" or "lynx". Maybe we can get a cooler logo with lynx now! We pronounce it the same as "link" though!

All its components are called LINQ to Whatever (Objects, SQL, DataSet, XML, Entities, ...).


 

Published 10 June 07 07:25 by Dinesh.Kulkarni

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# jeffjones said on June 20, 2007 10:54 AM:

"Lin Cue" is too hard to say and "Lynx" isn't even close because there is not 's' in the "LINQ".  

Join my cause and say the word right, "LINK"!

# Charlie Calvert's Community Blog said on June 20, 2007 5:20 PM:

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# I know the answer (it's 42) said on June 21, 2007 1:09 AM:

I saw the same thing in TechMela which Dinesh reported. Many attendees was pronouncing LINQ as "link

# Bryan St. Amour said on July 20, 2007 9:49 AM:

Hrm, don't I feel like a fool now? I've been pronouncing it as Lin "Q" for quite a while now. It's a good thing that I found this post before I embarrassed myself :/

# Mohsen Akhavan Nia said on August 4, 2007 5:37 AM:

I prefer to pronounce LINQ as Lin Que.

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About Dinesh.Kulkarni

I am a program manager in the Visual C# Product Unit of Microsoft. I am currently working on the LINQ project with specific responsibility for DLinq. Previously, I have been in a PM in SQL Server working on ObjectSpaces and DataSet. In pre-MS life, I have worked for companies ranging from startup to IBM on a wide range of software projects. Before I started working, I did M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. (CSE) from the University of Notre Dame and B.Tech. E.E. from IIT Bombay, India.

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