this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025

675 points (97.1% liked)

Programmer Humor

20844 readers

1398 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Feyter@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

675

TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

271 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

(page 6) 21 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

The meaning kind of clicked to me the first time I've seen the word and tried to pronounce it - it ended as [ẽ.'ʒĩ 'ʃis], the first part is close enough to English [ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn] ⟨engine⟩ that the association was obvious. ([ʃis] is just the Portuguese name for ⟨X⟩.)

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

https://youtu.be/tyQvjKqXA0Y

[–] seth_arimainyu@ieji.de 1 points 2 days ago

@Kalcifer And
(At least in some LATAM places) SQL is "pronounced" as SEQUEL...

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 2 days ago

Don’t wanna yuck y’all’s yum but gross

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe -3 points 2 days ago

Who cares? Pronounce it whichever way you want as long as it's clear/understandable. It would take longer for me to understand what piece of software engine-x is, but it takes a second at most.

load more comments