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TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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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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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

suddenly it all makes sense.

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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

[–] psud@aussie.zone 17 points 1 day ago (21 children)

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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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really dislike the trend of made up pronunciations. I can accept that gnome is with an audible g since that makes more sense than a silent g, but nginx can be at best similar to engine-x, but even then it's more like the n in dnd rather than en.

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 0 points 16 hours ago

If there were a dash I would accept engine, ie n-gin-x.

But it's spelled enjinx

[–] DavidGA@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (17 children)

And postgresql is pronounced post-gres-Q-L, even though it probably should be post-gre-SQL

[–] camh@programming.dev 23 points 1 day ago

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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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Wow, I never knew people thought it was pronounced differently. Never even considered it looked like jinx.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I called it n-jinx once. felt embarrassed for myself as soon as I said it.

called it engine-x ever since.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You have to say it in a commanding Japanese accent... Engine X

It sounds way cooler that way

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[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

It took a while for me to get it, but it still read ngnix as "n.g. -nix" in my head.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Does this mean when you go into an airport bathroom and see the hand dryer, you know it's called an XLerator (ex-LAIReighter)?

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