title: Using the word user for a MySQL table
body: <p>I checked the list of reserved words which can be found here</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/reserved-words.html" rel="nofollow">https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/reserved-words.html</a></p>
  
  <p>and I could not find the word 'user' but still I have seen alot of people say that you should not use the word 'user' for a table name but rather use a word like person instead. I don't understand why this is an issue because I could not find it in the reserved word list.</p>
  
  <p>In what circumstances would it be bad to use the word 'user' as a table name? Because when I try using that name it looks like everything I do works as expected so I don't understand why this is something I should avoid.</p>