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.

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  1. Title (website): “nginx”. Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
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  • @[email protected]
    3•9 hours ago

    Am I missing something? I’ve always pronounced it “imager”. How else would you pronounce it?

    • @pyre
      6•8 hours ago

      as it’s spelled: im gur.

      It’s one thing to name it imgr, but putting a fucking u after the g makes it a hard g in literally every instance. the letter u is the reason the g is pronounced as a hard g in words that otherwise wouldn’t need a u: fragile / guile, digest / guest, etc.

      • @[email protected]
        1•44 minutes ago

        it’s spelled img - ur, as in img or the shortening of image in every context. You can’t shorten image any other way.