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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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[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago
[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think software name pronunciation discussions are so hilariously absurd that I sometimes purposefully vocalise nginx as “Nuhh Ginks” just to put a hat on it

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ok so I know what ŋ sounds like but I bet there are some idiots here who don’t, so maybe explain it.

For them

[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In relation to English, it's the "ng" sound in the common "-ing" ending or suffix.

Wikipedia has an entire article on it (of course): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_velar_nasal

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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago
[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove

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[–] ohshittheyknow@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TIL some people pronounced it n-jinx

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[–] EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I will be dead and buried in the ground before I call nginx "engine x"

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] rjthyen@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I can't stop pronouncing USAID as u said even after i finally heard it instead of just reading it

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[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

If you want people to pronounce your project name correctly you should spell it that way. Having a FAQ on pronunciation means you've messed up and lost already. Want it to be called "Engine X"? Call it "Engine X".

My favourite is SAP not wanting people to call it Sap but to spell it out S.A.P. Well sorry, but it's a CVC word, literally the first kind of word everyone learns.

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“Nugginx” is how I have always read it

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[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Wow, I pronounced it N-G-X. Don't know why.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago

This surprised me too. But that was in 2012 😂

[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Oh boy - finally a modern internet nerd argument equivalent to the pronunciation of GIF!

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Getting into documentation is dangerous territory.. Try not to make a habit of it!

[–] shiftymccool@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's, ummm, literally the first thing on the website (nginx.org). Tell me you didn't read the docs without telling me you didn't read the docs

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.ogg (from back when many english speakers were still insistent that the i in Linux should be pronounced "eye")

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

you mean its not En Gee Nix?

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