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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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Does this mean when you go into an airport bathroom and see the hand dryer, you know it’s called an XLerator (ex-LAIReighter)?

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Wtf?

      It’s Jason. If they wanted it pronounced that way, they should’ve spelled it differently…

      Like GIF

      Sorry, no, at least one could argue GIF. JSON is a single freakin’ vowel short of a common male name.

      Morons.

        • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          No, it’s pronounced Jason. Douglas Crockford was just too laissez-faire to correct anyone on it probably because he didn’t give a fuck.

          • rishado@lemmy.world
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            1 month ago

            If you really just say Jason instead of jaysawn/J-sohn you’re nuts and probably drive everyone crazy with that

            • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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              1 month ago

              You & your buddies can keep pronouncing it jaysawn & sounding like complete dorks if it makes you feel better. However, it was clearly intended to be pronounced naturally as Jason like its inventor pronounces it.

              Believing otherwise is almost as bad as the plebs who think the symbol ∅ is inspired by Greek letter φ instead of Danish/Norwegian letter Ø.

              • rishado@lemmy.world
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                1 month ago

                Didn’t realize I was buddies with 99% of everyone that’s interacted with JSON!

                Also didn’t know people used the term ‘plebs’ unironically, you sound like an absolute joy to be around

                • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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                  1 month ago

                  You seem in irrational need for validation of your pronunciation despite clear justification against it. Cool ad populum. Fly that insecurity flag high.

        • warm@kbin.earth
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          2 months ago

          I always thought the G stood for graphics, but now I know it stands for giraffics.

          • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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            2 months ago

            It doesn’t matter what it stands for. That’s not how acronyms work.

            You don’t say “yolwa” for “YOLO”
            You don’t say “Ah-ih-dees” for “AIDS”
            You don’t say “britches” for “BRICS”
            You don’t say “sue-knee” for “CUNY” (City University of New York) Etc.

            And if you want to argue specifically about G:
            You don’t say “Jad” for “GAD” (generalized anxiety disorder)
            You don’t say “joes” for “GOES” (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)

            It’s not a hill I’m going to die on, I use both pronunciations, but the only argument I’ve ever believed for the proper one is that the creator pronounced it “jif”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Pronunciation

            Now let’s talk about “gibs” you heathens.

            • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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              1 month ago

              I use both pronunciations, but the only argument I’ve ever believed for the proper one is that the creator pronounced it “jif”

              Yeah, but they’re wrong, so it’s hard G

            • tyler@programming.dev
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              2 months ago

              SCUBA and NASA are always the ones I use against that argument. It would be Skuh-baa instead of scooba, and neh-sa instead of nah-suh.

              And no matter what way it was spelled, it’s the only word we’re still arguing about that literally has a song to go with it to make sure everyone pronounced it correctly. It’s pretty clearly a soft g, because it was a marketing trick, not a dictionary word. It doesn’t have to follow any rules of English, just like all those companies just removing random letters and changing ck for x, etc. Flickr, tumblr, Grindr, scribd, Lyft, Kwik, Cheez, etc etc etc. Twitter was originally even twttr.

              • criitz@reddthat.com
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                2 months ago

                People forget in the 90s/00s both GIF and JIF were relatively common image file types. It was only logical to use the hard G for GIF. So that’s how we used it. This overrules all arguments of how acronyms work or what the creator originally called it.

                • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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                  1 month ago

                  Bah, I was there. .jif was barely used and came 5 years after. They should have used a different name!

                • tyler@programming.dev
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                  1 month ago

                  nobody was using jif as a file type in the 90s, and no it wasn’t “only logical to use the hard G”. There are plenty of sources stating that no one pronounced it with a soft g up until it got popular as an image format on social media. It was universally understood to be a play on the peanut butter name. There are plenty of sources on this, I’m sorry but you’re either just making shit up or you were the only person to call it with a hard g in the 90s.

            • warm@kbin.earth
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              1 month ago

              I thought we were having a bit of a joke, but then you really went and gave me a gift of paragraphs.

              I think the creator was keeping the joke running by saying that. The word gift is why people prefer to say gif over jif, it’s how we were taught to pronounce “gif”. The rest of the g words are irrelevant to be honest.

            • AA5B@lemmy.world
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              1 month ago

              You don’t say “sue-knee” for “CUNY” (City University of New York) Etc.

              Of course not, then it would conflict with SUNY (State University of New York)

      • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        They’re joking. js doesn’t even officially stand for JavaScript due to Oracle’s IP claim over the JavaScript name.

      • randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Yes, like the Vietnamese name “Nguyen”, but not like “wininks”. The best I could describe it is as a hybrid between “ninks” and “ginks”. Pronounce the first consonant with the back of your tongue while keeping the image of pronouncing an “n” sound in your head.

        • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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          1 month ago

          Oh shit my bad, I mixed Ng and Nguyen, thanks for correcting me.
          Also that’s hilarious, I’m totally trying that one with the lads Monday, they’re gonna love it :D

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    The meaning kind of clicked to me the first time I’ve seen the word and tried to pronounce it - it ended as [ẽ.'ʒĩ 'ʃis], the first part is close enough to English [ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn] ⟨engine⟩ that the association was obvious. ([ʃis] is just the Portuguese name for ⟨X⟩.)

    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      I mean every time I hear about the damn thing it’s because it’s been misconfigured and is causing some fucking ruckus. The whole thing is cursed so jinx really feels appropriate where I’m standing from.

  • Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    I’m not sure what the English pronunciation of “n-jinx” sounds like but I’m pronouncing it “engines” as in plural of engine.