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Ha Ha yes. I find this with a lot of niche things I only ever read about, open source names seem to be the worst. Gnome is allegedly pronounced with a hard G.

Ha Ha yes. I find this with a lot of niche things I only ever read about, open source names seem to be the worst. Gnome is allegedly pronounced with a hard G. I've never heard that said in the wild. And I have no idea how anyone else pronounces XFCE.

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
Nginx I still pronounce as "en-jinks" to myself and have to be guarded to remember to say "engine-ex". MySQL had never been "my see-kwull" to me but always "my ess-queue-ell". Then there's Linux ...
- benj111 7y ago
  "en-jinks" That's how I thought it was pronounced too. NginX could maybe have provided a hint...
- ThePadawan 7y ago
  Welcome to the enjinks club :). The reverse is also happening to me - it has become very hard to see furniture advertised as latex, and read lay-tax, not la-tech.
  - pbhjpbhj 7y ago
    Um, don't tell me LaTeX isn't "lay-tex"?
    - detaro 7y ago
      It isn't: https://www.latex-project.org/about/ https://www.latex-project.org/about/