suddenly it all makes sense.
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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."
It took a while for me to get it, but it still read ngnix as "n.g. -nix" in my head.
I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind
Ok so I know what ŋ sounds like but I bet there are some idiots here who don’t, so maybe explain it.
For them
In relation to English, it's the "ng" sound in the common "-ing" ending or suffix.
Wikipedia has an entire article on it (of course): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_velar_nasal
For some reason if you put that sound at the beginning of a word most English speakers can't say it.
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I can't stop pronouncing USAID as u said even after i finally heard it instead of just reading it
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I really dislike the trend of made up pronunciations. I can accept that gnome is with an audible g since that makes more sense than a silent g, but nginx can be at best similar to engine-x, but even then it's more like the n in dnd rather than en.
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I will be dead and buried in the ground before I call nginx "engine x"
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Wow, I pronounced it N-G-X. Don't know why.