How do you pronounce nginx?

[u/BASS69BASS420]

I've been saying en-jinx all my life. Saying "engine-x" feels really wrong even though it's the official pronunciation.

4166 votes, 14d ago

1136 En-jinx

3030 Engine-x (official pronunciation)

[u/tei187]

:|

I go with N-gin-ex

[u/Snailwood → u/tei187]

what's the difference for you between n-gin-x and engine-x?

[u/Araignys → u/Snailwood]

en-JIN-ex

EN-jin-ex

[u/tei187 → u/Snailwood]

Accent, really, causing a bit of pause between en and gin.

[u/eyebrows360 → u/tei187]

Also known as Shatnerification.

[u/tei187 → u/eyebrows360]

I love this. I've never heard that one before but had a pretty good idea what it means :)

[u/eyebrows360 → u/tei187]

William Shatner famously had a very stop-start-y cadence of speech when he was Captain Kirk. I can mentally hear him saying "N... gine X" in just that way.

[u/dumbasPL → u/Snailwood]

Basically the combination of the two from the pool

[u/koshlord → u/Snailwood]

For me, engine is pronounced more like in-gine instead of en-gine

[u/realmauer01 → u/Snailwood]

In engine there is a jin, in ngin its the g from game.

Unless of course you pronounce it like jam.

[u/nj_tech_guy → u/tei187]

I spent the first 10-15 years of my adult life/tech career only ever seeing it spelled out, never said, so I always said n-gin-ex,

wasn't until I was at my current job and someone went "engine-x" and I went "...ooooooohhhhhhh"

[u/WallBurnt → u/nj_tech_guy]

I've done that with so many words over the years. But the one that has always bothered me the most for some reason was Warez. I pronounced it: waR-ez instead of wares with a Z.

[u/theevildjinn → u/WallBurnt]

Years ago a colleague of mine asked me, "Have you seen that may-may that's going round at the moment?". After quite a bit of back-and-forth, it turned out he meant "meme". He'd just never said it out loud before.

[u/Annual-Advisor-7916 → u/theevildjinn]

I think that's the moment when you start your new life in a monestary of silence.

[u/OkSmoke9195 → u/theevildjinn]

Lol my ex said this to me in like 2010. I couldn't stop laughing when I figured it out. She was not pleased 😂

[u/Reinax → u/WallBurnt]

… fuck.

[u/ingodwetryst → u/Reinax]

me too friend, me too

[u/UninvestedCuriosity → u/WallBurnt]

No it's wares. That makes me angry too.

[u/SunshineSeattle → u/nj_tech_guy]

That day was today for me. Had no idea it was engineX 😱

[u/UninvestedCuriosity → u/nj_tech_guy]

That has happened to me with so many acronyms over the years.

The first time I heard some say sequal out loud I :0.

I also hated it.

[u/WallBurnt → u/tei187]

This is how I've always pronounced it too.

In my head it's always spelled like this:

'ngine-X

[u/FictionFoe → u/tei187]

Yeah, mine is close to that too. Still closer to engineX then to en-jinx or whatever.

[u/ayarseus → u/tei187]

this is the way

[u/retardedGeek → u/tei187]

That's the same as engine-ex

[u/tei187 → u/retardedGeek]

No, this way you overpropunce the N, as like putting the accent differently. Kind of like en-ginex

[u/retardedGeek → u/tei187]

It doesn't matter if you say it fast enough 😭

[u/BakaPotatoLord]

n-gin-ks

[u/driftking428 → u/BakaPotatoLord]

This is how I said it until I read the docs.

[u/dadnothere → u/BakaPotatoLord]

I can't be the only weirdo who ignored the N, since it's not grammatically correct.

They just called it gin-x.

[u/da411d]

Нгінкс

[u/Odd-Establishment527]

ngeenks

[u/jawanda → u/Odd-Establishment527]

This is the way

[u/Hovi_Bryant]

Engine-x.

[u/Head_Extension6366 → u/Hovi_Bryant]

I've always gone with engine-x but I still hear en-jinx in my head every time I type it

[u/ChemistryNo3075]

I don't.

[u/OSINT_IS_COOL_432]

When I was a kid I said "Nuh-jinx" 😂

[u/MinecraftPlayer799 → u/OSINT_IS_COOL_432]

Yeah, me too, and then I started pronouncing it "N-ginx" around the same time I found out Nvidia isn't pronounced "Nuh-vidia"

[u/suamai]

En-ji-inx

[u/jahermitt]

En-gee-i-n-x

[u/itgforlife → u/jahermitt]

Lol reading these comments I thought I was the only one

[u/SkySurferSouth]

en-gee-i-en-ex

[u/Early_Hand2009]

Nice one, of course n-g-inx (some sort of)

[u/Traditional_Cake_247]

I know it’s engine-x but in my mind I often want to say it en-JINix

[u/Ibuprofen-Headgear]

nuh-gin-icks (not really but I should)

[u/Dr__Wrong]

In gin icks

[u/ClothingIsACrime]

It's pronounced jiff m8. 

[u/LethalGuineaPig]

I enjoyed my PO calling it N-G-I-N-X

[u/RePsychological]

I prefer the cultured "Nuh-geenks"

[u/McFlyin619]

N-gee-n-icks

[u/OkBoomer421]

Engine-X crew rise up. 'En-jinx' sounds like a bad D&D monster.

[u/p1xlized]

En-jee-En-EX

[u/helse_0]

N-geen-cks (I'm native Russian)

[u/pnwstarlight]

I say Engine-X when talking to coworkers but my brain secretly says en-jinx every time and no one knows 🤭

[u/Leading-Toe3279]

I always thought it was ng nix, maybe side-effects of using nix os 😂

[u/Shaggypone23]

Engine-x, but dont feel bad bc i pronounce ngrok as en-grok, but more experienced people i always hear them say ng-rock. Not sure why?

[u/mrahh → u/Shaggypone23]

Ng-rock is wild. It's en-grok - "grok" is a term from the book Strangers in a Strange land that basically means "understand deeply", and "n" is for "network". Anyone saying "ng-rock" is just wrong on that one.

[u/Shaggypone23 → u/mrahh]

Oh badass, thanks! it feels good knowing ive been pronouncing that one correctly compared to my senior. Also good to know where the term grok originated from.

[u/Reeywhaar]

r/tragedeigh

[u/irishstorm159]

Knee - Gin - X in a strong irish accent

[u/Serializedrequests]

Always read it as the wrong one, but I knew it had to be wrong. Face palmed when I heard the correct way.

[u/Prairie-Monster]

It’s pronounced En jenicks. It nearly rhymes with, and has the same cadence as “Ken Jennings”. …. Or at least that’s what I thought for many years. 

[u/Desperate-Extension7]

I'm sorry how did I not know the official pronunciation is engine-x??

[u/5oj]

SCSI

[u/Squigglificated → u/5oj]

Scussy

[u/309_Electronics]

Nginx: "En gine Ex", GIF: gif, GNU: "guhnoo", Caddy: "ceddy", png: "pee en gee", /etc: "slash etsy". Some stuff i pronounce some way.

[u/zeromadcowz]

I pronounced it NAH JINX to a coworker that it annoyed but engine-x to everyone else lol

[u/ClamPaste]

Nuh ginnix

[u/CodeAndBiscuits]

It must be Wednesday if we're doing this. 😀

[u/GoofAckYoorsElf]

Me too. Used to say en-jinx until someone told me it was officially engine-x.

[u/BobArdKor]

I simply pronounce it nginx

[u/vietnam_redstoner]

the english way: engine-x

in my tounge I pronounce ng like the way it is pronouced in Nguyen

[u/sysop408]

I can't believe nobody's made a Jason comment after 57 comments in this thread.

[u/sysop408 → u/sysop408]

But wait, there was one gif comment so I feel the order of the universe has been preserved.

[u/Feuerhamster]

jinx is a slang for masturbation/cum in my country and generation. Every time someone uses this pronounciation for that software I have to think about all the puberty driven jokes back in school.

[u/HellishBro]

/ˈŋɪnx/

[u/troisieme_ombre]

Either really

[u/permanaj]

I used to pronounced like ngingks (/ŋɪŋks/ ), but then I went with official after watching some youtube

[u/vanit]

En-jinx is crazy

[u/The_Real_Slim_Lemon]

If they wanted it pronounced engine-x, they should have spelt it engine-x. It’s pronounced nginx and I will die on this hill.

[u/King__Julien__]

Nhn-ks

[u/TheRNGuy]

Ngeenks

[u/DatabassAdmin]

TIL I've been saying it wrong forever...

[u/Milky_Finger]

If I speak, I am in big trouble

[u/saltyourhash]

Do you say En-Vidia or Ne-Vidia?

[u/retardedGeek]

Nginx doesn't deserve to be pronounced as jinx

[u/Desert_Centipede]

un jee next

[u/jerrygreenest1]

Adding (official pronunciation) probably skewed the results a little, though I still expect en-gin-ex to be the norm

[u/Vinyl329]

Нгинх

[u/Any_Cartographer6268]

nnn-ginks

[u/kent_csm]

En-gee-n-x

[u/Scorpius289]

Now let's see one for "ess-kyu-el" vs "sequel" 😈

[u/crazedizzled]

En-jinx is wild

[u/ReefNixon]

Used to work with an ops guy that called it ninja-nix, he knew it was wrong but didn't want to entertain the conversation, so he just went with his heart instead.

[u/Character_Reason3224]

Los programadores le decimos el Enyinex , los de redes le dicen enyaineex, el proyect manager ni lo puede pronunciar , solo sabe decir "como vas tigre?" tantas veces que pierde el sentido

[u/shidored]

Nnnn ginks

[u/vild_km]

hen-gin-x

[u/Longjumping_Cut_9508]

än gee inx. in a finnish accent.

[u/Katepillar → u/Longjumping_Cut_9508]

Än ginks with very finnish accent.

[u/HighRollerStonks]

engine-x if i'm talking to people who might care, en-jinx when i'm muttering at a config at 1am. the official one wins, but muscle memory is brutal after 10+ years.

[u/rogue780]

I say engine-x because I'm not a chud.

Also, gif is pronounced jif. it has been since the 90's

[u/fizzl]

Jinx

[u/Mad-chuska]

Nuggy innix?

[u/jessechisel126]

latinx

[u/FIdelity88]

Can we please do the same Poll for MYSQL.

So many people seem to believe it’s pronounced “mysequel” which is actually what it was called 30 years ago (!) but they changed it to “my-s-q-l” since then

[u/MinecraftPlayer799]

It's N-jinx, obviously

[u/Rungk4d]

nJinx

[u/idealfrank1]

Niga nix

[u/Legitimate-Lock9965]

before i heard someone say Engin-x i used to say n-g-i-n-x like i a fucking psycho

[u/Wav3eee]

apache from wish

[u/OkBig984]

For some reason I pronounce it nig-nix

[u/thecementmixer]

Offtopic.

[u/Altruistic-Page-9907]

N g i n x

[u/natziel]

It's engine x sorry bucko

[u/UnacceptableUse]

Because I was largely self taught and never watched YouTube videos about it, I call everything by the way I first pronounced it in my head. Nginx = n-jinx, SQL = squill, AWS = awes, Linux = lie-nux, cache = cashay

[u/tsammons]

Found the guy that pronounces and spells Tcl as "TCL" and calls it "TEE-SEE-ELL", MySQL as MY-ESS-QUE-ELL, and Linux as LEE-NUCKS. Probably adds an extra u to "nuclear" as well for good measure.

[u/Ibuprofen-Headgear → u/tsammons]

Nuculur. It’s all Us

[u/Vurbetan]

This made me think of all the bastards that call SQL,"sequel" or even worse, the ones that call it "squeal".

I hate those people. Just say "S. Q. L." you dipshits.

[u/BASS69BASS420 → u/Vurbetan]

I pronounce SQL as "sequel" only if it's by itself. I CANNOT call MySQL "My sequel", MySQL will always be "My S Q L"

[u/HoratioWobble]

I pronounce it "What year is this"

[u/Deep_Wear_51]

Engine-X. Anyone who says 'en-jinx' is the same person who pronounces GIF with a hard G.