Many technical terms — particularly acronyms — do not have obvious pronunciations. And, some terms still have hotly debated pronunciations. This article catalogues the pronunciation standards for the Ed-Fi Academy spoken material.

We make no claims to asserting the correctness of any particular pronunciation, this is just a document of where we landed during the development of the Ed-Fi Academy material.

The Guide

• API. A.P.I.
• ACT. A.C.T. The assessment and testing vendor.
• CoSN. KOH-sun. The Consortium for School Networking.
• cURL. curl
• EPP. E.P.P.
• GIF. JIFF. As in jiffy.
• HTTPS. H.T.T.P.S.
• IDE. I.D.E.
• ISTE. ISS-tee. International Society for Technology in Education.
• JSON. JAY-sohn (rhymes with "proton").
• LEA. L.E.A.
• MetaEd IDE. MEH-ta-ed I.D.E.
• ODS. O.D.S.
• Magnum PI. MAG-num P.I.
• MappingEDU. MAPPing E.D.U.
• PaaS: PASS.
• PostgreSQL. POST-gres-Q.L.
• Power BI. POW-er B.I.
• SaaS: SASS.
• SEA: S.E.A.
• SIS: S.I.S.
• SQL. SEE-quel. With very few exceptions (see PostgreSQL), not S.Q.L
• SSL. S.S.L.