“Nugginx” is how I have always read it
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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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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...
Insert dank Winnie the Pooh meme here for F-STAB
That's... Unfortunate.
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you mean its not En Gee Nix?
Getting into documentation is dangerous territory.. Try not to make a habit of it!
Who cares? Pronounce it whichever way you want as long as it's clear/understandable. It would take longer for me to understand what piece of software engine-x is, but it takes a second at most.
I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind
Ok so I know what ŋ sounds like but I bet there are some idiots here who don’t, so maybe explain it.
For them
In relation to English, it's the "ng" sound in the common "-ing" ending or suffix.
Wikipedia has an entire article on it (of course): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_velar_nasal
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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."
I will be dead and buried in the ground before I call nginx "engine x"
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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.
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.
I just say "post grezz sequel". Sorry if it pisses people off, but it's a stupid name, so I'm gonna say it the way I want.
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It's short enough I just spell it out
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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And JSON is pronounced “javascripton“
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.
They're joking. js doesn't even officially stand for JavaScript due to Oracle's IP claim over the JavaScript name.
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That is the lamest decepticon transformer I’ve ever heard of
Oh my god it's Javascripton Bourne!
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Wow, I pronounced it N-G-X. Don't know why.
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.
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Wow, I never knew people thought it was pronounced differently. Never even considered it looked like jinx.
Rules of English, the closest I'd come is n-jinx. You don't pronounce letters individually, unless reciting the alphabet or something.
Unless you pronounce the letter "B" the same way you say it, like the bug that makes honey.
We don't say "beenefits" or "bee eee an eee eef eye tee ess"
Why would I pronounce something with rules of English that's not an English word? When I say the word jalapeno, I pronounce the tilde on the n even though in English it's neither written with the tilde nor written with a letter combination that would produce that sound through standard English spelling.
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Well you see, this is software so the rules break down here in favor of cool. I guess I just grew up surrounded by naming conventions like that so could easily identify it.