Programmer Humor

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

Make me

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

I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind

hnn-geenks

TIL some people pronounced it n-jinx

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

It's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove

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

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.

“Nugginx” is how I have always read it

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

This surprised me too. But that was in 2012 😂

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

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

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

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

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")