Programmer Humor

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

hnn-geenks

I can't stop pronouncing USAID as u said even after i finally heard it instead of just reading it

I called it n-jinx once. felt embarrassed for myself as soon as I said it.

called it engine-x ever since.

“Nugginx” is how I have always read it

Make me

It took a while for me to get it, but it still read ngnix as "n.g. -nix" in my head.

Getting into documentation is dangerous territory.. Try not to make a habit of it!

Wow, I pronounced it N-G-X. Don't know why.

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.

you mean its not En Gee Nix?

This surprised me too. But that was in 2012 😂

It's short enough I just spell it out