Programmer Humor

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My workplace calls it "n-jinx", we know its nonstandard but its still what is understood by the team.

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."

https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.ogg (from back when many english speakers were still insistent that the i in Linux should be pronounced "eye")

This surprised me too. But that was in 2012 😂

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

I split the middle with en-JIN-iks (which is how I heard it said long before I saw it written)

Oh boy - finally a modern internet nerd argument equivalent to the pronunciation of GIF!

And postgresql is pronounced post-gres-Q-L, even though it probably should be post-gre-SQL

Wow, I never knew people thought it was pronounced differently. Never even considered it looked like jinx.

hnn-geenks

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.

"nnnnn-ghinks"

Nginx is atrocious. I about have a stroke every time I have to work with it. Caddy is 1000x easier to set up.

Idiot. Using English letters to try to represent sounds they don't normally make. It didn't work for gif (pronounced commonly as gif instead of jif), why would they think it would work for them?

N-gin? Cortex's henchman???

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.

Thank you for saving me from future embarrassment.

Or just becoming terminal "um actually"-er like I've become with epoch