Ok, going for full controversy here. zsh = “zoosh” ssh = “shoosh” sudo = sue-dough

Before you achktually me, I know it’s supposed to be “sue-DO”, because the acronym stands for “superuser do”, but for the life of me, when I see those letters together it just seems wrong to pronounce it that way.

  • cobysev
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    101 month ago

    As a former IT guy, I got used to just saying “secure shell” every time I saw SSH, to help teach my younger IT folks the lingo. I don’t even say the acronym anymore. When I did, I just spoke the letters (es-es-aich).

    Same for ZSH; I just call it Z-Shell (zee-shell).

    Sudo has always been “soo-doh” (or “sue-dough” as OP spelled it; same pronunciation). I’ve never met anyone who pronounced it differently in my 20 years of IT work.

    • @z00sOP
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      21 month ago

      That’s interesting because any time this comes up online I see scores of people claiming that it MUST be pronounced “Sue Doo”, but literally never heard anyone say that IRL either