How do *you* pronounce sudo?

Not necessarily how it's "supposed" to be pronounced, what do you say? (in your head or aloud)

How do you pronounce sudo?

• soo-dough
• soo-doo
• Just show me the results

Discuss: Were you ever taught this by anyone? Have you thought about this much?

P.S. Polls are still private admin features, but we'll make them general soon enough

Comments

[Jake Varness]

suh dood

[Pacharapol Withayasakpunt]

Why not saa-daa, for Substitute User Does?

[Sujata Pradhan]

Ess You Doo :D

[🦄N B🛡]

I pronounce it, "Fran that # sign better not mean you're root just to run journalctl."

[Tom Connolly]

I was told it was short for "super user do" and thus should be pronounced soo doo.
That said, it looks too much like su dough to me, and this is how I say it. Perverse, I know.

[Andrew Gibson]

In some of the first episodes of Breaking Bad, they were always saying "We need to get Pseudo", which was short for Pseudoephedrine, but I kept thinking it was "sudo" and it confused me.

[Max Modesto Wallin]

In regional Swedish saudo. Something like that 🙂.

[Swastik Baranwal]

soo-doo

[Buzz Zhang]

sudo sounds like 速度(sudu) in China, which means speed, hurry up!

[Jeremy Forsythe]

Soo-dough because it rolls off the tongue better and because the *nix geeks my dad hung around with when I was a wee bitty kid in the 80-90s pronounced it that way.

Similarly to how we learned to pronounce gif (JIF) correctly before most of you were out of diapers 🤣