Re: Advice required for cascading vertical menu.

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from Mark Goodge contained the following:

>>SQL and PNG could be further contextualised examples. Taking the first,
>>depending on your preference, you could have title attribute (in
>>whichever abbr/acronym you prefer) as either "Sequel - Structured Query
>>Language" or just "Structure Query Language", then match it with the CSS
>>speak: normal; / speak: spell-out;
>
>Well, SQL isn't Sequel. Sequel is the brand name of a database product
>produced by IBM, and predates the existence of SQL. There is a theory
>that SQL was at least partly a backronym intended to be
>(mis)pronounced as "sequel", in the hope that this would drive sales
>of the real Sequel

One of my lecturers used to say that there was nothing 'structured'
about SQL and that therefore Structured Query Language made no sense.

Of course the original came from Structured English Query Language which
is at least a little more logical.
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