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/.
    • §“nginx”. ¶1.
  • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    2 days 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?

    • eighty@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 days 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.

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
        0·
        2 days ago

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

        • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
          01·
          1 day 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”).