Programmer Humor

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")

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.

En-eh hinks (with heavy Spanish accent)

This surprised me too. But that was in 2012 😂

Now you'll tell me it's not pronounced Hap Roxy!

Idiot. Using English letters to try to represent sounds they don't normally make. It didn't work for gif (pronounced commonly as gif instead of jif), why would they think it would work for them?

"nnnnn-ghinks"

hnn-geenks

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

I like to pronounce it as nginks like fucking inks. Yes, with a ng sound in the beginning.

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.

I'm glad there's pronunciations provided, because to me it looks like it should sound like a slur.

You have to say it in a commanding Japanese accent... Engine X

It sounds way cooler that way

One time I was getting estimates for server software for an embedded device I had made. In a teleconference, I told one company that our prototype server ran on nginx. They emailed us an estimate saying we had to switch our embedded system to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, and put the server on Microsoft's cloud, because "Engine X is not an enterprise web server."

It's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove

I split the middle with en-JIN-iks (which is how I heard it said long before I saw it written)

I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind