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submitted 6 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.

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

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[–] eighty@aussie.zone 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (16 children)

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.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

See also ghoti (fish). English orthography only works by agreement, not rules

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ah, a VSauce Fan

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 6 months ago

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

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