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		davisoneee on April 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Mongita is to MongoDB as SQLite is to SQL To be fair, one suggested etymology I've seen for for 'mongo' is a simplification of 'humongous'. Whether you believe this claim or not, it's entirely down to whether you want to take a charitable or negative guess at the original intention.

kragen on April 21, 2021 [–]

Anyone who reads Spanish fluently will react to the misspelling "Mongita"—whether with distaste, amusement, pity, or defensiveness—long before they have time to think through the possible motivations of the MongoDB developers.

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