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TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" (sh.itjust.works)
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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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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

that's not how most people do though, a lot of people will nativize words to the language they're speaking or are most used to. Like with your example of "jalapeno" that's.. one of the more famous words for people to pronounce in wild ways, there's a video of a swedish guy who manages to turn it into "japaleno" because that's more compatible with swedish.