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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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Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
- §"nginx". ¶1.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also I pronounce it with the soft sound because that's what it sounds like in the bloody alphabet.

How do you pronounce the words "Cat celebration?" Is it "Kat kelebration" or "sat selebration?" I'm guessing the latter since that's how C is pronounced in the bloody alphabet?

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

i pronounce "gay" as "jay-why" because of the bloody alphabet

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

Good thing you're not German or gay would be "Guh-ypsilon."