Programmer Humor

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

TIL some people pronounced it n-jinx

And JSON is pronounced “javascripton“

And I will always pronounce SQL as “squeal”

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...

I've been pronouncing it N-gin-X, which is probably close enough once slurred together

And GIF is pronounced GIF

I've always pronounced it "not-Apache"

I've never heard it pronounced any other way than "engine x".

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

like how curl in my head is "curl" and not "c-url"

As always, first impressions count. There is no way I'm starting to call it engine x now, except for fun.

btrfs -> butterface

I thought it was pronounced N-G-N-X

When I first heard someone say SCSI out loud describing the drives in a server, I responded with, "No, they're actually high-end drives."

My workplace calls it "n-jinx", we know its nonstandard but its still what is understood by the team.

My lead dev used to pronounce it njinx and I always needed some time to realize what he's talking about.

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

Make me

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

I always pronounced it engine-x (fluent as one word) but never thought of it meaning engine lol

n gin x -> en gin ex -> "enginex" spoken, nginx thought

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.