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TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 36 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Am I missing something? I've always pronounced it "imager". How else would you pronounce it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

as it's spelled: im gur.

It's one thing to name it imgr, but putting a fucking u after the g makes it a hard g in literally every instance. the letter u is the reason the g is pronounced as a hard g in words that otherwise wouldn't need a u: fragile / guile, digest / guest, etc.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

1000% I say gif too, like gift. If you wanted it pronounced like “jiff” then you should have spelled it with a J.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Or with a Đ.