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TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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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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Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
- §"nginx". ¶1.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

suddenly it all makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Thank you for saving me from future embarrassment.

Or just becoming terminal "um actually"-er like I've become with epoch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Wait till you hear about SearXNG or SxncD

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

you mean its not En Gee Nix?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I really dislike the trend of made up pronunciations. I can accept that gnome is with an audible g since that makes more sense than a silent g, but nginx can be at best similar to engine-x, but even then it's more like the n in dnd rather than en.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I just kind of knew that, but not sure how.

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