"nnnnn-ghinks"
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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.
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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?
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Wow, I never knew people thought it was pronounced differently. Never even considered it looked like jinx.
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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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Wait, so this isn't a testosterone supplement?
When this baby hits 200rps, you’re gonna get some hairs on your chest
It's, ummm, literally the first thing on the website (nginx.org). Tell me you didn't read the docs without telling me you didn't read the docs
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You have to say it in a commanding Japanese accent... Engine X
It sounds way cooler that way
I called it n-jinx once. felt embarrassed for myself as soon as I said it.
called it engine-x ever since.
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."