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Last month I discover NGINX is not pronounced "en-jinx", and today I discover SQLite is not pronounced "sequel-light".

2020 is turning out to be pretty terrible guys.




You and me both, my friend.

Apparently I've been using S-Q-L-ite, not S-Q-Lite.

All these years I've been using "Engine-X", not "en-jinx", and didn't know it.. https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/community/faq/


I only knew it because I had to look up the pronunciation. I kept calling it N-G-I-N-X, but could never remember the spelling.


Wait until you hear how 'valgrind' rhymes with 'grinned'!


I've been getting that wrong for quite a while.

There's a certain irony in getting the name of a debugging tool wrong.


I have always pronounced "NGINX" as /ŋɪŋks/. So, I was wrong, too. But I always pronounced "SQLite" and "valgrind" properly, at least.




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