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.
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
On https://www.ipachart.com/ you can click on every symbol to hear it.
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.
I used to pronounce the name Nguyen as “ngoo-yen” until somebody told me it’s pronounced “win”, and i was like “What?”