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TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" (self.programmer_humor)
submitted 1 day ago by Kalcifer 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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  1. Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
    • §"nginx". ¶1.
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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I always called it “in-gen-ix”, which doesn’t even make sense now that I think about it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unless you’re from New Zealand

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Uhn-jun-uhks in NZ TYVM.