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Have you met anyone who is confused about how to pronounce nginx? I haven’t, but I have met _a lot_ of people who have trouble writing it correctly. It all sta

Have you met anyone who is confused about how to pronounce nginx? I haven’t, but I have met _a lot_ of people who have trouble writing it correctly. It all started with all good .com domains being taken, and now, here we are.

catlifeonmars 5y ago
I did not know how to pronounce it correctly up until last year, when I first heard it spoken by a colleague.
swiftcoder 5y ago
I assumed it was n-jinx for years, until I happened to discuss it with a colleague. Same with Apache, since in Europe it typically gets pronounced appa-sha (as it would be in French)
- klyrs 5y ago
  Apache is an awkward one, because it's a Spanish loanword from Nahuatl, which is further distorted by English speakers. I can't find a website that does the Nahuatl pronunciation, but my guess is that it's closer to the Spanish than English https://www.spanishdict.com/pronunciation/apache https://www.spanishdict.com/pronunciation/apache
  - squiggleblaz 5y ago
    The correct pronunciation of Apache is "a patchy" as in "a patchy HTTPD server". The pronunciation of the Spanish and Nahuatl etymological origins of the other side of the pun are irrelevant.
    - klyrs 5y ago
      Unless you read the very next paragraph on the wikipedia article... > Brian Behlendorf, one of the Apache's creators, asserted that the origins of Apache were not a pun, stating: > > The name literally came out of the blue. I wish I could say that it was something fantastic, but it was out of the blue. I put it on a page and then a few months later when this project started, I pointed people to this page and said: "Hey, what do you think of that idea?" ... Someone said they liked the name and that it was a really good pun. And I was like, "A pun? What do you mean?" He said, "Well, we're building a server out of a bunch of software patches, right? So it's a patchy Web server." I went, "Oh, all right." ... When I thought of the name, no. It just sort of connotated: "Take no prisoners. Be kind of aggressive and kick some ass." So, no, it's based on a stereotype of a group of tribes indigenous to North America. The pun endures because the indigenous culture did not.
  - dragonwriter 5y ago
    > Apache is an awkward one, because it's a Spanish loanword from Nahuatl Probably North American native language (though there is a less-accepted theory of entirely-Spanish origin), but almost certainly not Nahuatl. Per Wikipedia, the dominant theories are Zuni and Yavapai.

catlifeonmars 5y ago

I did not know how to pronounce it correctly up until last year, when I first heard it spoken by a colleague.

swiftcoder 5y ago

I assumed it was n-jinx for years, until I happened to discuss it with a colleague. Same with Apache, since in Europe it typically gets pronounced appa-sha (as it would be in French)

klyrs 5y ago
Apache is an awkward one, because it's a Spanish loanword from Nahuatl, which is further distorted by English speakers. I can't find a website that does the Nahuatl pronunciation, but my guess is that it's closer to the Spanish than English https://www.spanishdict.com/pronunciation/apache https://www.spanishdict.com/pronunciation/apache
- squiggleblaz 5y ago
  The correct pronunciation of Apache is "a patchy" as in "a patchy HTTPD server". The pronunciation of the Spanish and Nahuatl etymological origins of the other side of the pun are irrelevant.
  - klyrs 5y ago
    Unless you read the very next paragraph on the wikipedia article... > Brian Behlendorf, one of the Apache's creators, asserted that the origins of Apache were not a pun, stating: > > The name literally came out of the blue. I wish I could say that it was something fantastic, but it was out of the blue. I put it on a page and then a few months later when this project started, I pointed people to this page and said: "Hey, what do you think of that idea?" ... Someone said they liked the name and that it was a really good pun. And I was like, "A pun? What do you mean?" He said, "Well, we're building a server out of a bunch of software patches, right? So it's a patchy Web server." I went, "Oh, all right." ... When I thought of the name, no. It just sort of connotated: "Take no prisoners. Be kind of aggressive and kick some ass." So, no, it's based on a stereotype of a group of tribes indigenous to North America. The pun endures because the indigenous culture did not.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > Apache is an awkward one, because it's a Spanish loanword from Nahuatl Probably North American native language (though there is a less-accepted theory of entirely-Spanish origin), but almost certainly not Nahuatl. Per Wikipedia, the dominant theories are Zuni and Yavapai.