nginx (“engine x”) is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server. […] [1]

I still pronounce it as “n-jinx” in my head.

References
  1. Title (website): “nginx”. Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
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  • zod000@lemmy.ml
    291·
    1 day ago

    I’ve never heard it pronounced any other way than “engine x”.

    • dan@upvote.au
      2·
      9 hours ago

      I started using it around 2006, and even back then it listed the pronunciation on the site.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 day ago

      When I first encountered it, it was by hearing it. It took longer than it probably should have to recognize that when people talked about “engine x”, they meant “in-jinks”

      • zod000@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 day ago

        I heard it spoken first as well, but I ended up seeing it in text form not long after. I think it would have been more confusing if that hadn’t been the era of internet companies thinking they were clever if they dropped a letter (usually a vowel).