TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"

a year ago by Kalcifer to c/programmer_humor

nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server. […] [1]

I still pronounce it as "n-jinx" in my head.

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Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
- §"nginx". ¶1.

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psud 18 points a year ago

Idiot. Using English letters to try to represent sounds they don't normally make. It didn't work for gif (pronounced commonly as gif instead of jif), why would they think it would work for them?

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eighty 37 points a year ago

first rule of english pronunciation: there are no rules. All that matters is if people understand what you mean when you say it.

I gave up on this discussion when you have to consider gin, generate, giraffe, gene, gym, etc

Also I pronounce it with the soft sound because that's what it sounds like in the bloody alphabet.

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psud 15 points a year ago

See also ghoti (fish). English orthography only works by agreement, not rules

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zarkanian 0 points a year ago

See also ghoti (fish).

I'll be the first to say that English is a mess. However, there are rules, and this word breaks them.

That "gh" never appears at the beginning of a word, always at the end (as in "enough"). That "ti" is never at the end of a word; it's always inside (as in "nation").

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MaggiWuerze -1 points a year ago

Ah, a VSauce Fan

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ArcaneSlime 6 points a year ago

Also I pronounce it with the soft sound because that's what it sounds like in the bloody alphabet.

How do you pronounce the words "Cat celebration?" Is it "Kat kelebration" or "sat selebration?" I'm guessing the latter since that's how C is pronounced in the bloody alphabet?

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pyre 4 points a year ago

i pronounce "gay" as "jay-why" because of the bloody alphabet

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Korhaka 2 points a year ago

Just say gif like gnome

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Braindead 2 points a year ago

Nifty