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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.

References

  1. Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
    • §"nginx". ¶1.
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind

[–] Kalcifer 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Do you mean /ɲiɲks/?

Here are the sounds for each:

Referencs

  1. Type: Article. Title: "Voiced palatal nasal". Publisher: Wikipedia. Published: 2025-02-20T17:37Z. Accessed: 2025-02-28T06:58Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palatal_nasal.
    • The audio file is found by clicking "source" for the audio in the infobox.
  2. Type Article. Title: "Voiced velar nasal". Publisher: Wikipedia. Published: 2025-02-09T14:27Z. Accessed: 2025-02-28T06:59Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_velar_nasal.
    • The audio file is found by clicking "source" for the audio in the infobox.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Nope.

[–] Kalcifer 1 points 12 hours ago

Thank you for verifying 🙂

[–] prettybunnys 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ok so I know what ŋ sounds like but I bet there are some idiots here who don’t, so maybe explain it.

For them

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In relation to English, it's the "ng" sound in the common "-ing" ending or suffix.

Wikipedia has an entire article on it (of course): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_velar_nasal

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For some reason if you put that sound at the beginning of a word most English speakers can't say it.

[–] zarkanian 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I used to pronounce the name Nguyen as "ngoo-yen" until somebody told me it's pronounced "win", and i was like "What?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

On https://www.ipachart.com/ you can click on every symbol to hear it.