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.
En-eh hinks (with heavy Spanish accent)
My lead dev used to pronounce it njinx and I always needed some time to realize what he’s talking about.
Thank you for saving me from future embarrassment.
Or just becoming terminal “um actually”-er like I’ve become with epoch
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)
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.
I flew from Jermany to Tanzania and saw some jeriatric jiraffes.
I say it “Jif” because:
- That’s what the format’s creator named it.
- It’s weird, but “soft G” is a thing and acronyms and the only “rule” for pronouncing acronyms is “it’s easy to say”.
- It annoys people that are way too invested in it. Sure, it’s immature – but it’s low stakes and not particularly “shitty”. I enjoy it and you only YOLO once.
similar problem with kubectl
It’s obviously kubecontrol! I will die on this hill.
Also, Containerd … Not helped by the cli nerdctl.
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?”.
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 pronounce k8s as k-eights sometimes on purpose to gauge the reactions
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”)
And I will always pronounce SQL as “squeal”
I say PSQL as Pee Sequel
My brain first interpreted SQL as ‘squirrel’ and that now refuses to relinquish its claim as default pronunciation in my mind.
genius
I still say it this way in my head…
That’s great actually!
This surprised me too. But that was in 2012 😂
Oh boy - finally a modern internet nerd argument equivalent to the pronunciation of GIF!
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”
I heard it spoken first as well, but I ended up seeing it in text form not long after. I think it would have been more confusing if that hadn’t been the era of internet companies thinking they were clever if they dropped a letter (usually a vowel).
The correct way is njinx because enginex is a dumb spelling and is too much like twitter
Can you believe that fucking dipshit ruined the letter X for all of us 😤
