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

submitted 11 months ago by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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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.

References

Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
- §"nginx". ¶1.

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[-] vanta@lemm.ee 45 points 11 months ago

like how curl in my head is "curl" and not "c-url"

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

…it's not "curl"?

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

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

🤔

References

Title (article): "cURL". Publisher: Wikipedia. Published: 2025-02-20T12:12Z. Accessed: 2025-02-27T04:17Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL.
- ¶1

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

This is "jif" levels of upsetting me

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 months ago

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

I pronounce gif like zyhfe to annoy both jif and gif pronouncers equally. I also advocate for the initial array index to be .5 to be equally annoying to programmers and mathematicians alike.