[asa400]

If you have to explain the pronunciation of the name of your tool in the first sentence, you've already lost.

[myth2018]

https://nginx.org/

[flomo]

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.

[RupertSalt]

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".

[dumah]

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.

[Shank]

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

[db48x]

Lots of counterexamples to that one.

[zekrioca]

No.

[Artoooooor]

English, dammit...

[hiprob]

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

[jagged-chisel]

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

[quasarj]

Wait, how are you supposed to say mate?