TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"
TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"
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.
References
- Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
- §"nginx". ¶1.
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I've never heard it pronounced any other way than "engine x".
I've never heard it pronounced. Which is why I also thought it was "n-jinx"
I started using it around 2006, and even back then it listed the pronunciation on the site.
When I first encountered it, it was by hearing it. It took longer than it probably should have to recognize that when people talked about “engine x”, they meant “in-jinks”
I heard it spoken first as well, but I ended up seeing it in text form not long after. I think it would have been more confusing if that hadn't been the era of internet companies thinking they were clever if they dropped a letter (usually a vowel).
nyuh-inks