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.
References
- Title (website): “nginx”. Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
- §“nginx”. ¶1.
And JSON is pronounced “javascripton“
Occasionally i feel myself longing back to the good ol’ JSOFF times.
My lead dev used to pronounce it njinx and I always needed some time to realize what he’s talking about.
I like to pronounce it as nginks like fucking inks. Yes, with a ng sound in the beginning.
I’m glad there’s pronunciations provided, because to me it looks like it should sound like a slur.
TIL some people pronounced it n-jinx
Wait till you hear about SearXNG or SxncD
My colleagues were right?!
But of course they pronounce the “ine” as in brine (we are French), which is what really hurts my ears, ugh.I laughed out loud when I first learned that imgur is supposed to be pronounced as "imager’… well you fuckin chose the wrong combination of letters for that didn’t ya
And ngrok is en-grok, not en-jii-rok…
En-eh hinks (with heavy Spanish accent)
I’ve never heard it pronounced any other way than “engine x”.
I’ve never heard it pronounced. Which is why I also thought it was “n-jinx”
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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…
f-s-tab is feeble. Unsatisfactory. Bureaucratic.
f-stab is jocose. Nonchalant. Sharp.
F-s-tab is boba
F-stab is kiki
