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https://nginx.org/

Funny, I had a job where everyone called it "N-Jinx", so I said that at another job and everyone looked at me like an idiot.

Huh? Guess you do learn something new everyday - I've been calling it that for ever too but apparently it is "engine-x" ... (thanks to you, I guess I won't sound like an idiot any more, to some ;).

I was in a group who began pronouncing the dashes in command-line options as "tack" and they said it was military lingo, but I cannot now find any connection to dash, hyphen, "minus", or Morse code "dah".

Ooh! I do this! I got it from Darren Kitchen from Hak5! I have no idea where or why he did it though.

Tack is short for tackline, a length of line used to delimit messages encoded with flags in the days before shipboard radio communications.

Military and civil emergency communications use alternative pronunciations where clarity and brevity are critical.

Lots of counterexamples to that one.

No.

English, dammit...

sudo? gnu? mate? debian? ubuntu? suse?

Wait, how are you supposed to say mate?

Mah-tay

WHAT D:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate

lol, no thank you

Oo Boon Too

I was born and raised amongst the rednecks of the southern US and still, someone saying “uh-BUN-too” sounds so silly