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
- Title (website): “nginx”. Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
- §“nginx”. ¶1.
See also ghoti (fish). English orthography only works by agreement, not rules
I’ll be the first to say that English is a mess. However, there are rules, and this word breaks them.
That “gh” never appears at the beginning of a word, always at the end (as in “enough”). That “ti” is never at the end of a word; it’s always inside (as in “nation”).
Ah, a VSauce Fan
According to Wikipedia, that spelling goes back to 1855. I first heard about it in the '90s.
Yes, but a fan of so much that I may have heard of that before Vsauce covered it. Vsauce is much good though, all of them have some credit