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

I laughed out loud when I first learned that imgur is supposed to be pronounced as "imager'... well you fuckin chose the wrong combination of letters for that didn't ya

And I will always pronounce SQL as “squeal”

My lead dev used to pronounce it njinx and I always needed some time to realize what he's talking about.

And JSON is pronounced “javascripton“

I think software name pronunciation discussions are so hilariously absurd that I sometimes purposefully vocalise nginx as “Nuhh Ginks” just to put a hat on it

And GIF is pronounced GIF

I've never heard it pronounced any other way than "engine x".

There's a linux file called fstab which is often pronounced f-s-tab because it's a table of file systems. It was somewhat surprising to hear Dave Plummer pronounce it as "f-stab", as in stabbing someone...

En-eh hinks (with heavy Spanish accent)

I've been pronouncing it N-gin-X, which is probably close enough once slurred together

I've always pronounced it "not-Apache"

As always, first impressions count. There is no way I'm starting to call it engine x now, except for fun.

I'm glad there's pronunciations provided, because to me it looks like it should sound like a slur.

similar problem with kubectl

Now you'll tell me it's not pronounced Hap Roxy!

I thought it was pronounced N-G-N-X

like how curl in my head is "curl" and not "c-url"

Wait till you find out about quay

This surprised me too. But that was in 2012 😂

I like to pronounce it as nginks like fucking inks. Yes, with a ng sound in the beginning.

My colleagues were right?!
But of course they pronounce the "ine" as in brine (we are French), which is what really hurts my ears, ugh.

Make me

My workplace calls it "n-jinx", we know its nonstandard but its still what is understood by the team.

When I first heard someone say SCSI out loud describing the drives in a server, I responded with, "No, they're actually high-end drives."

https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.ogg (from back when many english speakers were still insistent that the i in Linux should be pronounced "eye")

I always pronounced it engine-x (fluent as one word) but never thought of it meaning engine lol

n gin x -> en gin ex -> "enginex" spoken, nginx thought

I split the middle with en-JIN-iks (which is how I heard it said long before I saw it written)

Oh boy - finally a modern internet nerd argument equivalent to the pronunciation of GIF!

If you want people to pronounce your project name correctly you should spell it that way. Having a FAQ on pronunciation means you've messed up and lost already. Want it to be called "Engine X"? Call it "Engine X".

My favourite is SAP not wanting people to call it Sap but to spell it out S.A.P. Well sorry, but it's a CVC word, literally the first kind of word everyone learns.

hnn-geenks

Wow, I never knew people thought it was pronounced differently. Never even considered it looked like jinx.

The correct way is njinx because enginex is a dumb spelling and is too much like twitter

And postgresql is pronounced post-gres-Q-L, even though it probably should be post-gre-SQL

"nnnnn-ghinks"

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?

Nginx is atrocious. I about have a stroke every time I have to work with it. Caddy is 1000x easier to set up.

N-gin? Cortex's henchman???

I went for n-ginx too. I've known for a while that it's actually n-gin-x but have to think carefully to not revert back.

Thank you for saving me from future embarrassment.

Or just becoming terminal "um actually"-er like I've become with epoch

I've always pronounced it "In-jen-iks". I blame Jurassic Park and it's fictional biotech company InGen, but it does kinda also sound like "eugenics". But I dunno man, if you want everyone to pronounce your software a specific way maybe spell it in a manner where the pronunciation is more obvious? Just a thought.

You have to say it in a commanding Japanese accent... Engine X

It sounds way cooler that way

It's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove

I will be dead and buried in the ground before I call nginx "engine x"

It's, ummm, literally the first thing on the website (nginx.org). Tell me you didn't read the docs without telling me you didn't read the docs

I called it n-jinx once. felt embarrassed for myself as soon as I said it.

called it engine-x ever since.

Wait till you hear about SearXNG or SxncD

I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind

One time I was getting estimates for server software for an embedded device I had made. In a teleconference, I told one company that our prototype server ran on nginx. They emailed us an estimate saying we had to switch our embedded system to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, and put the server on Microsoft's cloud, because "Engine X is not an enterprise web server."

It took a while for me to get it, but it still read ngnix as "n.g. -nix" in my head.

Wait, so this isn't a testosterone supplement?

I can't stop pronouncing USAID as u said even after i finally heard it instead of just reading it

suddenly it all makes sense.

“Nugginx” is how I have always read it

Wow, I pronounced it N-G-X. Don't know why.

am i the only one who thought it was nyuh-inks

Omg really was someone pronouncing like "njinks"??? Wtf is wrong with you lol

Getting into documentation is dangerous territory.. Try not to make a habit of it!

People pronounce GIF with a hard G, even though it's officially JIF, so who cares? /s, nothing agaisnt you, OP.

you mean its not En Gee Nix?

It's short enough I just spell it out

I'm not sure what the English pronunciation of "n-jinx" sounds like but I'm pronouncing it "engines" as in plural of engine.

I just kind of knew that, but not sure how.

Who cares? Pronounce it whichever way you want as long as it's clear/understandable. It would take longer for me to understand what piece of software engine-x is, but it takes a second at most.

I look forward to the day when all these lame-ass, insider naming conventions are looked down upon as the stupid things they are.

Wtf does "en jinx" or "engine X" have to do with it's functionality?

I hate looking for an app on my phone that does a particular thing but hell if I can recall what the idiot developed called it.

Not En Jinnicks?

Don’t wanna yuck y’all’s yum but gross

The meaning kind of clicked to me the first time I've seen the word and tried to pronounce it - it ended as [ẽ.'ʒĩ 'ʃis], the first part is close enough to English [ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn] ⟨engine⟩ that the association was obvious. ([ʃis] is just the Portuguese name for ⟨X⟩.)

https://youtu.be/tyQvjKqXA0Y

@Kalcifer And
(At least in some LATAM places) SQL is "pronounced" as SEQUEL...