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TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" (sh.itjust.works)
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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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  1. Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
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[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I've never heard it pronounced any other way than "engine x".

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 7 hours ago

I started using it around 2006, and even back then it listed the pronunciation on the site.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 23 hours ago

I've never heard it pronounced. Which is why I also thought it was "n-jinx"

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 20 hours ago

nyuh-inks

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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”

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

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).