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.
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En-eh hinks (with heavy Spanish accent)
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And ngrok is en-grok, not en-jii-rok…
My colleagues were right?!
But of course they pronounce the “ine” as in brine (we are French), which is what really hurts my ears, ugh.I’m glad there’s pronunciations provided, because to me it looks like it should sound like a slur.
Nginx is atrocious. I about have a stroke every time I have to work with it. Caddy is 1000x easier to set up.
Please no! Not another fucking reverse proxy. I can’t take it anymore T_T
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.
If there were a dash I would accept engine, ie n-gin-x.
But it’s spelled enjinx
N-gin? Cortex’s henchman???
TIL some people pronounced it n-jinx
I mean every time I hear about the damn thing it’s because it’s been misconfigured and is causing some fucking ruckus. The whole thing is cursed so jinx really feels appropriate where I’m standing from.
@Kalcifer And
(At least in some LATAM places) SQL is “pronounced” as SEQUEL…Make me
Omg really was someone pronouncing like “njinks”??? Wtf is wrong with you lol
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…
“F-stab” is just more fun to say.
I guess some people might go with f-s-tayb, but I wouldn’t necessary recognise what they were saying.
Whereas fsck, short for “file system check”, should be pronounced “fisk” when someone in a suit is around, otherwise it’s “fuck”.
f*ck. You can even occasionally get away with spelling it like this
It’s ef sock in my head
it kinda ends up as “fsuck” for me, which is apt-get when it doesn’t magically fix all my filesystem issues
N-jinks is silly, f-stab is cool.
With the issues i had in the past with fstab, the desire to stab someone was certainly provoked.
f-s-tab is feeble. Unsatisfactory. Bureaucratic.
f-stab is jocose. Nonchalant. Sharp.
Is that pronounced as gokoze?
F-s-tab is boba
F-stab is kiki
That’s… Unfortunate.
It’ll forever be F-stab in my head
I was a non violent youth when I first saw an fstab, perhaps that got me thinking “F S tab”
Insert dank Winnie the Pooh meme here for F-STAB
Wait till you find out about quay
