How to pronounce 65 tech terms developers (and TTS) get wrong

Its inventor, Steve Wilhite, insisted on the soft g, "jif". The hard g is more common in practice, and dictionaries list both. The one clear mistake is spelling it out letter by letter.

Both readings are standard: the letters S-Q-L follow the ANSI name, while "sequel" comes from its predecessor, SEQUEL. Pick one per team. What it is never is a single syllable like "squall".

Torvalds recorded a clip settling it: LIN-uks, with a short i, not "lie". His own name is LEE-nus in Finnish, and the English habit of saying LYE-nus dragged the kernel along with it.

The name is short for "engine x", and the pronunciation keeps the original words: say engine, then the letter X. Because the spelling has no vowels, TTS models tend to spell it out or force it into one syllable. The official nginx documentation states the reading plainly.

The docs list several readings; the common ones are "cube control" and "cube cuttle". Nobody spells it out.

It is a homophone of cash, one syllable. The two-syllable ka-SHAY is cachet, a different word meaning prestige.

Microsoft says AZH-ur with the stress up front and a reduced second syllable. British English also allows end stress, but Microsoft's own material is consistent.

Richard Stallman asks specifically that the g be pronounced, giving two syllables, guh-NOO, to distinguish it from the animal, which is said "new".

Both readings are current: TOO-pul is more American, TUH-pul more British. Either way the stress is first.

It comes from the Greek κυβερνήτης, meaning helmsman. The stress falls on the third syllable, NET, and the ending is "eez", not "nights". Native speakers miss this too, because -netes looks like -nights.