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.
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?
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.
There actually are rules. They’re just complicated because English prefers to preserve the pronunciation of loan words without changing their spelling and English has a ton of loan words. If you ignore them, native English words are fairly consistent.
Just say gif like gnome
Nifty
guh-nif?
See also ghoti (fish). English orthography only works by agreement, not rules
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
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
Good thing you’re not German or gay would be “Guh-ypsilon.”
so I assume you also say “jit-hub”?
No, and you don’t say juitar (guitar), jame (game), or jallon (gallon), either.
Yeah, because those all start with gu or ga.
It’s pronounced GIF
No, it’s pronounced GIF
Also, the correct pronunciation for that Atlassian tool is “Gira”.