"nnnnn-ghinks"
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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."
I always think of this guy.
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
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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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And postgresql is pronounced post-gres-Q-L, even though it probably should be post-gre-SQL
I just pronounce it postgres. That's the original name of the database. It originally had its own query language (quel), and SQL was later retrofitted onto it and called PostgreSQL. But the original quel language is long gone that we may as well go back to calling it just Postgres.
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Wow, I never knew people thought it was pronounced differently. Never even considered it looked like jinx.
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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.
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I called it n-jinx once. felt embarrassed for myself as soon as I said it.
called it engine-x ever since.