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 like to pronounce it as nginks like fucking inks. Yes, with a ng sound in the beginning.
Like the Vietnamese name? So... "Wininks" ?
Yes, like the Vietnamese name "Nguyen", but not like "wininks". The best I could describe it is as a hybrid between "ninks" and "ginks". Pronounce the first consonant with the back of your tongue while keeping the image of pronouncing an "n" sound in your head.
Oh shit my bad, I mixed Ng and Nguyen, thanks for correcting me.
Also that's hilarious, I'm totally trying that one with the lads Monday, they're gonna love it :D
Wait till you find out about quay
People pronounce GIF with a hard G, even though it's officially JIF, so who cares? /s, nothing agaisnt you, OP.
It's officially wrong, happens sometimes.
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En-eh hinks (with heavy Spanish accent)
I just kind of knew that, but not sure how.
Does this mean when you go into an airport bathroom and see the hand dryer, you know it's called an XLerator (ex-LAIReighter)?
I'm not sure what the English pronunciation of "n-jinx" sounds like but I'm pronouncing it "engines" as in plural of engine.
Um das mal phonetisch zu schreiben: Es würd sich ungefähr wie "en dschinks" auf Deutsch anhören.
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I'm glad there's pronunciations provided, because to me it looks like it should sound like a slur.
The meaning kind of clicked to me the first time I've seen the word and tried to pronounce it - it ended as [ẽ.'ʒĩ 'ʃis], the first part is close enough to English [ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn] ⟨engine⟩ that the association was obvious. ([ʃis] is just the Portuguese name for ⟨X⟩.)