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
  1. Title (website): “nginx”. Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
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  • psudEnglish
    225·
    13 hours ago

    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?

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      18 minutes ago

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

    • eightyEnglish
      34·
      12 hours ago

      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.

      • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 hours ago

        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.

      • psudEnglish
        161·
        11 hours ago

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

        • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          11 minutes ago

          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”).

          • psudEnglish
            5·
            8 hours 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

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        82·
        10 hours ago

        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?