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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by skissane on Monday November 23, 2015 @05:28PM (#10617805)
Until I learnt the correct way of pronouncing it, I always thought it was "en-ginks".

Sometimes there can be a long gap (even many years) between first reading about something and first using its name in conversation. A long time for mispronunciations to stew away in my brain (assuming the person I'm talking to even knows how to pronounce it themselves.)

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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by hueving on Monday November 23, 2015 @06:07PM (#10618008)
I spent an embarrassing amount of my life thinking epitome was 'epa tome' instead of 'a pit oh me'.
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by evincarofautumn on Monday November 23, 2015 @06:22PM (#10618077)
Here’s a sizable list of words like that: http://english.stackexchange.com/q/1431/1506
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by billbrown on Monday November 23, 2015 @11:40PM (#10619149)
Mine was "hitherto." I pronounced it "hit-hurt-oh" once. Once. (It's "hither too" if you didn't know.)
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by creshal on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @04:09AM (#10619836)
Better than hit-her-too, I guess.
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by monk_e_boy on Monday November 23, 2015 @06:21PM (#10618067)
Oh... today I learn.
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by reconditioned on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @06:14AM (#10620154)
I still thought that until just now - that there were 2 different words: epitomy and epitome; epitome being stronger: suggesting some kind of singular platonic ideal the former meaning just a good example of this kind of thing

Just as I used to think misled (miss-led) and misled (my-zled) were 2 different words - the latter implying an element of malice

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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by tehmaco on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @05:59AM (#10620118)
'cache' being pronounced 'kash', not 'kaysh' is one that's still wrong in my brain.
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by HillRat on Monday November 23, 2015 @07:39PM (#10618383)
Oh, don't feel too bad; a few weeks ago, my wife had lunch with the Ivy League-pedigreed nth-generation CEO of a reasonably large midsized company who used the exact same mispronunciation. Paris being worth a mass, she chose not to correct him.
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by vacri on Monday November 23, 2015 @09:34PM (#10618826)
There was a story floating around about a self-taught C# programmer going for a job, and verbally describing the language as "C Pound".
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by eropple on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @02:29AM (#10619579)
I have been known to call that language "Coctothorpe" when in a biting mood.
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by dbenhur on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:34AM (#10619449)
Or editorilizing C-hash
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by andrewbinstock on Monday November 23, 2015 @11:51PM (#10619173)
I especially recall the old debate in the mid-1990s about whether Linux was pronounced "Lee-nux" or "Lin-ux."
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by rahimnathwani on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @12:26AM (#10619265)
http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by username223 on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:01AM (#10619360)
I still always think "an-jye-nex" (like a chemical that would give you angina).
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