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.
And JSON is pronounced “javascripton“
Occasionally i feel myself longing back to the good ol’ JSOFF times.
It’s a real book 💀
It’s fantastic too!
Show me the c++ book thickness
That is the lamest decepticon transformer I’ve ever heard of
JavaScript is actually pronounced with a g.
Gagascript. One is soft, one is hard.
Gangaacrupt?
GuavaScript?
I’ve been pronouncing it N-gin-X, which is probably close enough once slurred together
I always called it “in-gen-ix”, which doesn’t even make sense now that I think about it.
Unless you’re from New Zealand
There’s a linux file called fstab which is often pronounced f-s-tab because it’s a table of file systems. It was somewhat surprising to hear Dave Plummer pronounce it as “f-stab”, as in stabbing someone…
It’ll forever be F-stab in my head
Whereas fsck, short for “file system check”, should be pronounced “fisk” when someone in a suit is around, otherwise it’s “fuck”.
it kinda ends up as “fsuck” for me, which is apt-get when it doesn’t magically fix all my filesystem issues
f*ck. You can even occasionally get away with spelling it like this
f-s-tab is feeble. Unsatisfactory. Bureaucratic.
f-stab is jocose. Nonchalant. Sharp.
Is that pronounced as gokoze?
“F-stab” is just more fun to say.
With the issues i had in the past with fstab, the desire to stab someone was certainly provoked.
That’s… Unfortunate.
Insert dank Winnie the Pooh meme here for F-STAB
I guess some people might go with f-s-tayb, but I wouldn’t necessary recognise what they were saying.
N-jinks is silly, f-stab is cool.
Yeah, the j-sawn pronunciation is truly inexplicable. Who pronounces S-O-N “sawn”?
I laughed out loud when I first learned that imgur is supposed to be pronounced as "imager’… well you fuckin chose the wrong combination of letters for that didn’t ya
1000% I say gif too, like gift. If you wanted it pronounced like “jiff” then you should have spelled it with a J.
I flew from Jermany to Tanzania and saw some jeriatric jiraffes.
I say it “Jif” because:
- That’s what the format’s creator named it.
- It’s weird, but “soft G” is a thing and acronyms and the only “rule” for pronouncing acronyms is “it’s easy to say”.
- It annoys people that are way too invested in it. Sure, it’s immature – but it’s low stakes and not particularly “shitty”. I enjoy it and you only YOLO once.
jif was copyrighted. gif was literally named after the peanut butter. it came with a jingle “choosy developers choose gif”. How many different forms of proof do you need.
And GIF is pronounced GIF
PNG is pronounced “PING!”
The fuck?!
Lo and behold,
P[i]NG
Pi
P- iNG
like how
curlin my head is “curl” and not “c-url”It is pronounced like “curl” though!
We pronounce curl with an initial k sound. It rhymes with words like girl and earl. This is a short WAV file to help you:
…it’s not “curl”?
EDIT (2025-02-27T04:15Z):
cURL (pronounced like “curl”, /kɜːrl/) […] [1]
🤔
References
- Title (article): “cURL”. Publisher: Wikipedia. Published: 2025-02-20T12:12Z. Accessed: 2025-02-27T04:17Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL.
- ¶1
- Title (article): “cURL”. Publisher: Wikipedia. Published: 2025-02-20T12:12Z. Accessed: 2025-02-27T04:17Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL.
This is “jif” levels of upsetting me
I’ve always pronounced it “not-Apache”
And I will always pronounce SQL as “squeal”
I say PSQL as Pee Sequel
That’s great actually!
When I first heard someone say SCSI out loud describing the drives in a server, I responded with, “No, they’re actually high-end drives.”
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I’ve never heard it pronounced any other way than “engine x”.
I’ve never heard it pronounced. Which is why I also thought it was “n-jinx”
When I first encountered it, it was by hearing it. It took longer than it probably should have to recognize that when people talked about “engine x”, they meant “in-jinks”
I heard it spoken first as well, but I ended up seeing it in text form not long after. I think it would have been more confusing if that hadn’t been the era of internet companies thinking they were clever if they dropped a letter (usually a vowel).
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.
PSA: it’s acshully pronounced “Postgre-squirrel”.
Postgre-squirtle
A colleague pronounces it “Postgré”
What’s the difference? Those read the same to me. Do you mean that you want a strong gap between “gre” and the S in S-Q-L?
The first one is post-grez-queue-el, the second one is post-gree-es-queue-el
The first is the only way that makes sense, the second too easily becomes post-grease-queue-el. Which is horrible.
I will be calling it post-grease from now on.
Wow, I never knew people thought it was pronounced differently. Never even considered it looked like jinx.
btrfs -> butterface
Thank you, i will call it that from now on
I thought it was pronounced N-G-N-X
Where did the I go?
To be or not to be, that is the question
