Now you'll tell me it's not pronounced Hap Roxy!
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And postgresql is pronounced post-gres-Q-L, even though it probably should be post-gre-SQL
I just pronounce it postgres. That's the original name of the database. It originally had its own query language (quel), and SQL was later retrofitted onto it and called PostgreSQL. But the original quel language is long gone that we may as well go back to calling it just Postgres.
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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
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This surprised me too. But that was in 2012 😂
Wow, I never knew people thought it was pronounced differently. Never even considered it looked like jinx.
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I'm glad there's pronunciations provided, because to me it looks like it should sound like a slur.
I went for n-ginx too. I've known for a while that it's actually n-gin-x but have to think carefully to not revert back.
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I like to pronounce it as nginks like fucking inks. Yes, with a ng sound in the beginning.
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Oh boy - finally a modern internet nerd argument equivalent to the pronunciation of GIF!
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?
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"nnnnn-ghinks"
If you want people to pronounce your project name correctly you should spell it that way. Having a FAQ on pronunciation means you've messed up and lost already. Want it to be called "Engine X"? Call it "Engine X".
My favourite is SAP not wanting people to call it Sap but to spell it out S.A.P. Well sorry, but it's a CVC word, literally the first kind of word everyone learns.
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I split the middle with en-JIN-iks (which is how I heard it said long before I saw it written)
You have to say it in a commanding Japanese accent... Engine X
It sounds way cooler that way
My colleagues were right?!
But of course they pronounce the "ine" as in brine (we are French), which is what really hurts my ears, ugh.
One time I was getting estimates for server software for an embedded device I had made. In a teleconference, I told one company that our prototype server ran on nginx. They emailed us an estimate saying we had to switch our embedded system to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, and put the server on Microsoft's cloud, because "Engine X is not an enterprise web server."