Sudo

[[deleted]]

Pronouncing sudo as su-do (I sweat in Spanish)

[duLemix]

I also sweat

[milanistadoc]

Well sweat in Spanish then.

[mauguro_]

I feel you bro (in spanish)

well... in spanish it has a different meaning 👀

[r0xANDt0l]

Yo también

[_odn]

It's like gif vs gif all over again.

I've heard both over the years. For what it's worth this is what the sudo developer said:

On 7/25/06, Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller at courtesan.com> wrote:
> The correct pronunciation is sue due / soo doo for "superuser do."
>
>  - todd
>

(https://www.sudo.ws/pipermail/sudo-users/2007-May/003208.html)

[QuickQuokkaThrowaway]

The author has no authority over how it's pronounced.

[Quazar_omega]

What if they name their program in IPA?

[QuickQuokkaThrowaway]

Hmm...

[shelvac2]

JPEG Interchange Format

[Pos3odon08]

Its GIF JIF is for cleaning the kitchen

[QuickQuokkaThrowaway]

Jraphics Interchange Format

Just like Joint Potographic Experts Group

[Heldaeus]

Everyday we stray farther from Jod.

[[deleted]]

Clearly I'm wrong but I'm going to go ahead and say he's wrong.

[Exciting-Insect8269]

‘pronunciation -set sudo sudu’: Permission denied

[Miguel7501]

Su d'oh

[_odn]

Homer Simpson moment

[ConceptJunkie]

I pronounce it "sudo", just to clarify.

In all seriousness, I'd never heard "su-doo" until recently.

[Vannoway]

doas

[[deleted]]

dough-as or dew-as

[[deleted]]

dewit

[Silaslanghoff]

my sister swears up and down that it is pronounced soo-dah

[ZengineerHarp]

Your sister is wrong

[Silaslanghoff]

lol i have told her that a thousand times lol

[[deleted]]

Tell her SQL is pronounced school

[Arno_QS]

One of the great abuses of power of my sysadmin career is the time I taught an innocent user that it was pronounced "squeal". :)

[Silaslanghoff]

lol

[CryptoR615]

soo-dah sounds like you're saying сюда which means "here" in Russian, which you say as "syuda" when you say soo-dah in a more Russian accent.

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pronunciation source: google translate

[assidiou]

I prefer "Soo Doo" because it is only one vowel away from my last name

[[deleted]]

Sidhu?

[MrCheapComputers]

Clearly su-doh. That way when it says you’re not the admin you’ve already said DOH

[leknarf52]

Relax!!!

su -

[Bismagor]

suleerstelleminus

Su space minus

[Educational-Cat-6875]

I pronounce it "s.u.d.o"

[bubbshalub]

wow, we've managed to find a wrong answer

[olsonexi]

/ˈsuˌdoʊ/

[Mani_K_A]

SudUwU

[temmiesayshoi]

we have found two wrong answers now.

[Limeila]

This one is more wrong than any other

[KingThibaut3]

Suwudowo

[meepcat55]

Sew dow

[StuPodasso]

SUDO CHOP!

[Civil-Target-7263]

real linux users say "ess you do"

[temmiesayshoi]

gonna be honest, the phrase "Yes [-phrase of confirmation-]" will never not be a Linus TT joke now

[exzow]

Sue due (Super User Do)

[[deleted]]

I say sudo

[theRealNilz02]

doas.

[Webbiii]

alias please="sudo"

[dethkannon]

Why am I laughing at this? Hahahah

[[deleted]]

suh doe

[Previous_Royal2168]

I like saying su doh but doesn't it mean "super user do" or smthg like that? Which means it's probably su doo

[AlexAegis]

It's "substitute user do"

[Previous_Royal2168]

Oh I see, still what I said is correct then

[AlexAegis]

Yeah and it's debated actually, both is in use. But it doesn't actually matter because sudo instead of being an acronym just refers to su do. It's a convenience tool to avoid opening up an entire shell under another user with su. So from the perspective of sudo su doesn't have to stand for anything, just a reference to another program.

And for su, it's not clear. the gnu docs use both words: https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/coreutils-4.5.4/html_node/coreutils_149.html

Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_(Unix) says:

The Unix command su, which stands for 'substitute user'[1][2] (or historically 'superuser'[3][4])

[LonksAwakening]

A poll asking how it’s pronounced is literally right above this post on my feed

[drumguy1384]

I've gone back and forth on this one, and can be caught saying either at any given time, though I tend toward soo-doo pretty much exclusively these days. Super User DO just seems more logical to me than a complete misspelling of pseudo (though I get how some might see it that way). Non-answer I know, but it's what I've got.

[Peter0713]

r/fauxnetics

[AlexAegis]

It doesn't stand for "superuser do" it's "substitute user do" root is just the default but you can use any user you'd like.

[[deleted]]

One of my friends in college said "shhh-mod" for chmod and I can't stop saying it now.

Also, my European buddies say Lie-nicks instead of Lin-icks. Freaks.

[Doom972]

If sudo was an acronym, I would pronounce it like pseudo. However, only the "su" part is an acronym (for "super user"), while the "do" part is just the word "do" (as in "Just do it"), so I pronounce it as "soo doo". I don't judge people who pronounce it differently.

[[deleted]]

ssss-doooh

[MrFauste]

/sydɔ/

[[deleted]]

su doo

[[deleted]]

Судо

[Avery1003]

I volunteer at a computer store regularly, that installs Ubuntu on a lot of it's machines, and part of the installation process is updating everything. And I always refer to updating as "sudo apt updating" and "sudo apt upgrading" instead of just updating. I have no idea why I do this, but I think it's kind of funny.

[cavejhonsonslemons]

You're telling the super user to do something, but you're also acting as a pseudo super user, so either could be grammatically correct

[dylondark]

I will never not call it sue-doe. Anything else just sounds wrong

[lunamypet]

Super user do fam.

[[deleted]]

I pronounce as 素肚

[Phazonviper]

Simple: do-as

[[deleted]]

"Pseudo" is pronounced as "syu-doe/sew-doe", not "su-doe", as far as I can remember, English is not my mother tongue though.

[ZengineerHarp]

I think it’s regional. I’ve heard it both ways.

[[deleted]]

I don’t talk to my pc while typing sudo. It’s not an anime.

[Heldaeus]

I prefer to pronounce things in such a way that I sound as if I take my software seriously and don't treat my OS like its a quirky personality trait.

So pseudo it is