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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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[–] psud@aussie.zone 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

See also ghoti (fish). English orthography only works by agreement, not rules

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 0 points 22 hours ago

See also ghoti (fish).

I'll be the first to say that English is a mess. However, there are rules, and this word breaks them.

That "gh" never appears at the beginning of a word, always at the end (as in "enough"). That "ti" is never at the end of a word; it's always inside (as in "nation").

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah, a VSauce Fan

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Yes, but a fan of so much that I may have heard of that before Vsauce covered it. Vsauce is much good though, all of them have some credit

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

According to Wikipedia, that spelling goes back to 1855. I first heard about it in the '90s.