Programmer Humor

And JSON is pronounced “javascripton“

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...

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

I've always pronounced it "not-Apache"

I laughed out loud when I first learned that imgur is supposed to be pronounced as "imager'... well you fuckin chose the wrong combination of letters for that didn't ya

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

And GIF is pronounced GIF

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."

And I will always pronounce SQL as “squeal”

And postgresql is pronounced post-gres-Q-L, even though it probably should be post-gre-SQL

I've never heard it pronounced any other way than "engine x".

Wow, I never knew people thought it was pronounced differently. Never even considered it looked like jinx.

btrfs -> butterface

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.

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

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

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

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?

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."

"nnnnn-ghinks"

You have to say it in a commanding Japanese accent... Engine X

It sounds way cooler that way