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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/.
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[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 89 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

There's a linux file called fstab which is often pronounced f-s-tab because it's a table of file systems. It was somewhat surprising to hear Dave Plummer pronounce it as "f-stab", as in stabbing someone...

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

"F-stab" is just more fun to say.

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It'll forever be F-stab in my head

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

I was a non violent youth when I first saw an fstab, perhaps that got me thinking "F S tab"

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

f-s-tab is feeble. Unsatisfactory. Bureaucratic.

f-stab is jocose. Nonchalant. Sharp.

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Is that pronounced as gokoze?

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Whereas fsck, short for "file system check", should be pronounced "fisk" when someone in a suit is around, otherwise it's "fuck".

[–] xep@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago

It's ef sock in my head

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

it kinda ends up as "fsuck" for me, which is apt-get when it doesn't magically fix all my filesystem issues

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

f*ck. You can even occasionally get away with spelling it like this

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

With the issues i had in the past with fstab, the desire to stab someone was certainly provoked.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

N-jinks is silly, f-stab is cool.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Insert dank Winnie the Pooh meme here for F-STAB

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

That's... Unfortunate.