Programmer Humor

TIL some people pronounced it n-jinx

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

And I will always pronounce SQL as “squeal”

My lead dev used to pronounce it njinx and I always needed some time to realize what he's talking about.

And JSON is pronounced “javascripton“

Wait till you find out about quay

I think software name pronunciation discussions are so hilariously absurd that I sometimes purposefully vocalise nginx as “Nuhh Ginks” just to put a hat on it

And GIF is pronounced GIF

I've never heard it pronounced any other way than "engine x".

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...

I've been pronouncing it N-gin-X, which is probably close enough once slurred together

En-eh hinks (with heavy Spanish accent)

I've always pronounced it "not-Apache"

I'm glad there's pronunciations provided, because to me it looks like it should sound like a slur.

As always, first impressions count. There is no way I'm starting to call it engine x now, except for fun.

similar problem with kubectl

btrfs -> butterface

Now you'll tell me it's not pronounced Hap Roxy!

I thought it was pronounced N-G-N-X

like how curl in my head is "curl" and not "c-url"

I like to pronounce it as nginks like fucking inks. Yes, with a ng sound in the beginning.

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.