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.
I like to pronounce it as nginks like fucking inks. Yes, with a ng sound in the beginning.
Now you’ll tell me it’s not pronounced Hap Roxy!
I split the middle with en-JIN-iks (which is how I heard it said long before I saw it written)
similar problem with kubectl
Hm, my guess would be either “cube control” or “cube C-T-L”.
EDIT (2025-02-28T09:02Z): Hm, actually, given that it’s for Kubernetes [1], maybe it’s “koob control” or “koob C-T-L”… [2]?
References
- Type: Documentation. Title: “Command line tool (kubectl)”. Publisher: Kubernetes. Published: 2024-01-01T21:15-08:00. Accessed: 2025-02-28T11:01Z. URI: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/.
- Type: Article. Title: “How to pronounce Kubernetes so you don’t get laughed at”. Author: “Blue Matador”. Publisher: “Blue Matador, Inc.”. Published: 2020-06-03. Accessed: 2025-02-28T11:07Z. URI: https://www.bluematador.com/blog/how-to-pronounce-kubernetes.
- §“So, how do you pronounce Kubernetes?”.
Kubernetes is pronounced coo-ber-net-ees […]
- §“So, how do you pronounce Kubernetes?”.
We refer to it as kew-bee-cuttle
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
Am I missing something? I’ve always pronounced it “imager”. How else would you pronounce it?
as it’s spelled: im gur.
It’s one thing to name it imgr, but putting a fucking u after the g makes it a hard g in literally every instance. the letter u is the reason the g is pronounced as a hard g in words that otherwise wouldn’t need a u: fragile / guile, digest / guest, etc.
1000% I say gif too, like gift. If you wanted it pronounced like “jiff” then you should have spelled it with a J.
Or with a Đ.
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
En Guh Inks
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”)
am i the only one who thought it was nyuh-inks
No [1.1].
EDIT 2025-02-28T10:17Z: Actually, @[email protected], I was wrong in my initial interpretation [1.2]. So, from what I can tell, you are, in actuality, the only one itt! 😊
References
- Type: Post. “TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"”. Author: “Kalcifer” @[email protected]. Publisher: “Programmer Humor” [email protected]. sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2025-02-26T23:27:35Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33487588.
- Type: Comment. Author: @[email protected]. Published: 2025-02-27T00:18:34Z. Accessed: 2025-02-28T06:38Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33487588/16948274.
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I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind
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- Type: Comment. Author: @[email protected]. Published: 2025-02-28T09:09:54. Accessed: 2025-02-28T10:24Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33487588/16975245.
Nope.
- The thread from which that quote originated was as follows:
TIL that “nginx” is pronounced “engine-x”, and not “n-jinx” […]
I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind
Do you mean /ɲiɲks/? […]
Nope.
- The thread from which that quote originated was as follows:
- Type: Comment. Author: @[email protected]. Published: 2025-02-27T00:18:34Z. Accessed: 2025-02-28T06:38Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33487588/16948274.
- Type: Post. “TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"”. Author: “Kalcifer” @[email protected]. Publisher: “Programmer Humor” [email protected]. sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2025-02-26T23:27:35Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33487588.
Oh boy - finally a modern internet nerd argument equivalent to the pronunciation of GIF!
And I will always pronounce SQL as “squeal”
I say PSQL as Pee Sequel
I say FAQ as fuck you.
Some people pronounce it like “fack”, and the official way to pronounce GameFAQs is “game facks”
My brain first interpreted SQL as ‘squirrel’ and that now refuses to relinquish its claim as default pronunciation in my mind.
That’s great actually!
As always, first impressions count. There is no way I’m starting to call it engine x now, except for fun.
I’ve done a semi-exception in the case of Xitter. I like this new name Elon chose because it brings the possiblity of playful sounds. Same goes to Xitler.
In Chinese, “X” makes a “sh” sound.
Take from that what you will.
That’s the point…
Not everyone knows that though.
I thought it was pronounced N-G-N-X
Where did the I go?
To be or not to be, that is the question
Where did I come from?
NGNX, the other tetragrammaton.
Although I’m Jewish, so I should probably write it N-NX.
I’m OOTL.
That is the protagonist from the (IMHO excellent) movie Equilibrium. He describes himself as a “tetragrammaton cleric.” Prior to your comment, I didn’t know the first word had any actual real world meaning, so that’s where my mind went when I saw you use it. (Apologies if this is disrespectful to the intent of the word.)
As an interesting side note, supposedly that movie is what got Christian Bale cast as Batman.
Sounds cool, will add to the watch list.
(Apologies if this is disrespectful to the intent of the word.)
I’m hella atheist, for the record, so no worries. Any actual Jewish practice was a few mothers ago, but mentioning it added both humour and another hint for people who know the concept but not the word.
Equilibrium is a really boring movie. Imagine if The Matrix’s fight scenes were centered around a gunfighter whose primary strategy is to stand in one spot and that doing so was a plot point and all the neat plot points of The Matrix were replaced with a plot about not feeling emotions.
Feel nothing, stand in one spot. Movie done.
Well, you’re wrong.
Make me
Wait, so this isn’t a testosterone supplement?
When this baby hits 200rps, you’re gonna get some hairs on your chest
I’ve never heard it pronounced any other way than “engine x”.
I started using it around 2006, and even back then it listed the pronunciation on the site.
I’ve never heard it pronounced. Which is why I also thought it was “n-jinx”
nyuh-inks
When I first encountered it, it was by hearing it. It took longer than it probably should have to recognize that when people talked about “engine x”, they meant “in-jinks”
