TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"

Oh my god it's Javascripton Bourne!

Occasionally i feel myself longing back to the good ol' JSOFF times.

That is the lamest decepticon transformer I’ve ever heard of

JavaScript is actually pronounced with a g.

Wtf?

It's Jason. If they wanted it pronounced that way, they should've spelled it differently...

Like GIF

Sorry, no, at least one could argue GIF. JSON is a single freakin' vowel short of a common male name.

Morons.

I always called it “in-gen-ix”, which doesn’t even make sense now that I think about it.

It'll forever be F-stab in my head

Whereas fsck, short for "file system check", should be pronounced "fisk" when someone in a suit is around, otherwise it's "fuck".

f-s-tab is feeble. Unsatisfactory. Bureaucratic.

f-stab is jocose. Nonchalant. Sharp.

"F-stab" is just more fun to say.

With the issues i had in the past with fstab, the desire to stab someone was certainly provoked.

That's... Unfortunate.

Insert dank Winnie the Pooh meme here for F-STAB

N-jinks is silly, f-stab is cool.

I guess some people might go with f-s-tayb, but I wouldn't necessary recognise what they were saying.

Yeah, the j-sawn pronunciation is truly inexplicable. Who pronounces S-O-N "sawn"?

1000% I say gif too, like gift. If you wanted it pronounced like “jiff” then you should have spelled it with a J.

Am I missing something? I've always pronounced it "imager". How else would you pronounce it?

It is pronounced like "curl" though!

We pronounce curl with an initial k sound. It rhymes with words like girl and earl. This is a short WAV file to help you:

https://media.merriam-webster.com/soundc11/c/curl0001.wav

https://curl.se/docs/faq.html#What_is_cURL

…it's not "curl"?

EDIT (2025-02-27T04:15Z):

cURL (pronounced like "curl", /kɜːrl/) […] [1]

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This is "jif" levels of upsetting me

C-url, like "sea earl"?

PNG is pronounced "PING!"

careful there buddy

They can pry my /ɡɪf/ from my cold dead hands.

/dʒɪf/ heretics can burn

No no, we won't be having any of that. It's not GIF it's GIF!

My brain first interpreted SQL as 'squirrel' and that now refuses to relinquish its claim as default pronunciation in my mind.

I say PSQL as Pee Sequel

That's great actually!

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

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”

nyuh-inks

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

I just pronounce it postgres. That's the original name of the database. It originally had its own query language (quel), and SQL was later retrofitted onto it and called PostgreSQL. But the original quel language is long gone that we may as well go back to calling it just Postgres.

I just say "post grezz sequel". Sorry if it pisses people off, but it's a stupid name, so I'm gonna say it the way I want.

PSA: it's acshully pronounced "Postgre-squirrel".

SQL is not traditionally pronounced like "sequel". Sequel was a whole different language.

Official pronunciation for MySQL, SQLite, and PostgreSQL all pronounce each letter.

But "sequel" is probably more common at this point and some of them include it as an alternate pronunciation now.

A colleague pronounces it "Postgré"

What’s the difference? Those read the same to me. Do you mean that you want a strong gap between “gre” and the S in S-Q-L?

Rules of English, the closest I'd come is n-jinx. You don't pronounce letters individually, unless reciting the alphabet or something.

Unless you pronounce the letter "B" the same way you say it, like the bug that makes honey.

We don't say "beenefits" or "bee eee an eee eef eye tee ess"

Thank you, i will call it that from now on

I can't read no, I can't read my butterface~

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.

"Engine-X" just sounds dumber. N-ginx for life

NGNX, the other tetragrammaton.

Although I'm Jewish, so I should probably write it N-NX.

Where did the I go?

first rule of english pronunciation: there are no rules. All that matters is if people understand what you mean when you say it.

I gave up on this discussion when you have to consider gin, generate, giraffe, gene, gym, etc

Also I pronounce it with the soft sound because that's what it sounds like in the bloody alphabet.

It's pronounced GIF

"G" does normally make a "J" sound, though. Giraffe, the second G in garage and garbage, engine, gin, and so on.

Putting the gin in Nginx.

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.

En Guh Inks

I pronounce k8s as k-eights sometimes on purpose to gauge the reactions

Ok so I know what ŋ sounds like but I bet there are some idiots here who don’t, so maybe explain it.

For them

Do you mean /ɲiɲks/?

Here are the sounds for each:

• ɲ ^[1]^
• ŋ ^[2]^

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Saying nginx with a "hard g" can get you into some real trouble...

You are a very silly man and I'm not going to interview you.

How do you pronounce it?

Really weird hill to die on, but okay.

This is hilarious

You just made me laugh halfway through a yawn.

Oh damn, I’m gonna be thinking of it as that now too

even a dash, ngin-x, would do it really

And is even worse sign if you need a document to describe how to pronounce its name. It is a sign you should pick another name.

Do our USAian overlords now require us to submit names to ensure those won't be mispronounced on purpose? You people are insufferable.

As a scandi Iv'e been leaning more into 'enginks' - close to 'engangs' and french kinks.

the docs are under documentation, not on the homepage tho

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]^?

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1. 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/.
2. 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 […] :::

It's obviously kubecontrol! I will die on this hill.

Also, Containerd ... Not helped by the cli nerdctl.

Like the Vietnamese name? So... "Wininks" ?

Can you believe that fucking dipshit ruined the letter X for all of us 😤

Same.

No ^[1.1]^.

EDIT 2025-02-28T10:17Z: Actually, @Aatube@kbin.melroy.org, I was wrong in my initial interpretation ^[1.2]^. So, from what I can tell, you are, in actuality, the only one itt! 😊

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      • I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind

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      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. :::

When this baby hits 200rps, you’re gonna get some hairs on your chest

Um das mal phonetisch zu schreiben: Es würd sich ungefähr wie "en dschinks" auf Deutsch anhören.

Please no! Not another fucking reverse proxy. I can't take it anymore T_T

Things like that are called "jargon" and are perfectly normal and acceptable in a given field, always been that way.

If you don't know how to pronounce, or even spell, NGINX, you probably have no use for it.

N. Gin X

It's this guy in powered up Boss form