Programmer Humor

And GIF is pronounced GIF

Wait till you hear about SearXNG or SxncD

And JSON is pronounced “javascripton“

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

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

I've always pronounced it "not-Apache"

This surprised me too. But that was in 2012 😂

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...

btrfs -> butterface

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

Make me

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

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

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

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

I've always pronounced it "In-jen-iks". I blame Jurassic Park and it's fictional biotech company InGen, but it does kinda also sound like "eugenics". But I dunno man, if you want everyone to pronounce your software a specific way maybe spell it in a manner where the pronunciation is more obvious? Just a thought.

The correct way is njinx because enginex is a dumb spelling and is too much like twitter

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."

hnn-geenks

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.