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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TIL some people pronounced it n-jinx
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.
I like to pronounce it as nginks like fucking inks. Yes, with a ng sound in the beginning.
Like the Vietnamese name? So… “Wininks” ?
Yes, like the Vietnamese name “Nguyen”, but not like “wininks”. The best I could describe it is as a hybrid between “ninks” and “ginks”. Pronounce the first consonant with the back of your tongue while keeping the image of pronouncing an “n” sound in your head.
Oh shit my bad, I mixed Ng and Nguyen, thanks for correcting me.
Also that’s hilarious, I’m totally trying that one with the lads Monday, they’re gonna love it :D
Idiot. Using English letters to try to represent sounds they don’t normally make. It didn’t work for gif (pronounced commonly as gif instead of jif), why would they think it would work for them?
Also, the correct pronunciation for that Atlassian tool is “Gira”.
No, it’s pronounced GIF
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.
so I assume you also say “jit-hub”?
No, and you don’t say juitar (guitar), jame (game), or jallon (gallon), either.
Also I pronounce it with the soft sound because that’s what it sounds like in the bloody alphabet.
How do you pronounce the words “Cat celebration?” Is it “Kat kelebration” or “sat selebration?” I’m guessing the latter since that’s how C is pronounced in the bloody alphabet?
i pronounce “gay” as “jay-why” because of the bloody alphabet
Just say gif like gnome
Nifty
See also ghoti (fish). English orthography only works by agreement, not rules
See also ghoti (fish).
I’ll be the first to say that English is a mess. However, there are rules, and this word breaks them.
That “gh” never appears at the beginning of a word, always at the end (as in “enough”). That “ti” is never at the end of a word; it’s always inside (as in “nation”).
Ah, a VSauce Fan
Yes, but a fan of so much that I may have heard of that before Vsauce covered it. Vsauce is much good though, all of them have some credit
“G” does normally make a “J” sound, though. Giraffe, the second G in garage and garbage, engine, gin, and so on.
People pronounce GIF with a hard G, even though it’s officially JIF, so who cares? /s, nothing agaisnt you, OP.
It’s officially wrong, happens sometimes.
we’re going to war
You have to say it in a commanding Japanese accent… Engine X
It sounds way cooler that way
like this?
🤌
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX
I thought it was pronounced N-G-N-X
Where did the I go?
To be or not to be, that is the question
Where did I come from?
NGNX, the other tetragrammaton.
Although I’m Jewish, so I should probably write it N-NX.
I’m OOTL.
That is the protagonist from the (IMHO excellent) movie Equilibrium. He describes himself as a “tetragrammaton cleric.” Prior to your comment, I didn’t know the first word had any actual real world meaning, so that’s where my mind went when I saw you use it. (Apologies if this is disrespectful to the intent of the word.)
As an interesting side note, supposedly that movie is what got Christian Bale cast as Batman.
Sounds cool, will add to the watch list.
(Apologies if this is disrespectful to the intent of the word.)
I’m hella atheist, for the record, so no worries. Any actual Jewish practice was a few mothers ago, but it added both humour and another hint for people who know the concept but not the word.
Equilibrium is a really boring movie. Imagine if The Matrix’s fight scenes were centered around a gunfighter whose primary strategy is to stand in one spot and that doing so was a plot point and all the neat plot points of The Matrix were replaced with a plot about not feeling emotions.
Feel nothing, stand in one spot. Movie done.
Yeah, actually looks like it was critically panned, too. I do love a good dystopian speculative fiction, but maybe not the top of the watch list.
Well, you’re wrong.
Not En Jinnicks?
Yeah, the j-sawn pronunciation is truly inexplicable. Who pronounces S-O-N “sawn”?
I believe the Greeks do where the name originates from.
I called it n-jinx once. felt embarrassed for myself as soon as I said it.
called it engine-x ever since.
you mean its not En Gee Nix?
like how
curlin my head is “curl” and not “c-url”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:
…it’s not “curl”?
This is “jif” levels of upsetting me
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.
C-url, like “sea earl”?
Don’t wanna yuck y’all’s yum but gross
There’s a linux file called fstab which is often pronounced f-s-tab because it’s a table of file systems. It was somewhat surprising to hear Dave Plummer pronounce it as “f-stab” as in stabbing someone…
With the issues i had in the past with fstab, the desire to stab someone was certainly provoked.
f-s-tab is feeble. Unsatisfactory. Bureaucratic.
f-stab is jocose. Nonchalant. Sharp.
F-s-tab is boba
F-stab is kiki
Whereas fsck, short for “file system check”, should be pronounced “fisk” when someone in a suit is around, otherwise it’s “fuck”.
f*ck. You can even occasionally get away with spelling it like this
it kinda ends up as “fsuck” for me, which is apt-get when it doesn’t magically fix all my filesystem issues
It’s ef sock in my head
It’ll forever be F-stab in my head
I was a non violent youth when I first saw an fstab, perhaps that got me thinking “F S tab”
That’s… Unfortunate.
“F-stab” is just more fun to say.
Insert dank Winnie the Pooh meme here for F-STAB
I always pronounced it engine-x (fluent as one word) but never thought of it meaning engine lol
n gin x -> en gin ex -> “enginex” spoken, nginx thought
Putting the gin in Nginx.
I’m not sure what the English pronunciation of “n-jinx” sounds like but I’m pronouncing it “engines” as in plural of engine.
Um das mal phonetisch zu schreiben: Es würd sich ungefähr wie “en dschinks” auf Deutsch anhören.
en-dschiniks
- “n-jinx” wäre “en dschinks”
- “engine x” wäre “endschin iks”
