Programmer Humor

btrfs -> butterface

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've always pronounced it "not-Apache"

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

And JSON is pronounced “javascripton“

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

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...

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

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

"nnnnn-ghinks"

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