I've always pronounced sudo the same way that the sudo part of sudowoodo is pronounced. I actually used to think it was an obscure Pokemon reference when I first started using Linux but both Linux and sudo itself Predate Pokemon.

• "zish" so it doesn't sound like "sheesh"
• ess ess aych
• sue-dough

There is entirely too much dough in this thread (/j).

I pronounce it staccato:
s'ú . d'ó

Z-shell sue doe S.S.H

At work we all pronounce zsh “zish” like dish but with a z.

sudo is sue-doo, not sue-dough or pseudo

SSH is just s-s-h

I just pronounce them as I should do in my native language.

ZSH: zé-es-há /zeːɛʃhaː/

SSH: es-es-há /ɛʃɛʃhaː/

sudo: sudó /ʃudoː/ (with ʃ(sh) and long o at the end - this is a rule in my language, every o at the end of a word must be long, with two exceptions)

I say them like this (in my head) even if I read english text.

Zee shell, soo-doo, S-S-H.

Zsh - za-sh (like bash)

Ssh - s-s-h

Sudo - sue-do

Awk - aw-k (like the hawk but no h)

Cat - c-a-t

Chmod - ch-mod (ch like change and mod like model)

Mkdir - m-k-dir

Vim - vim

Vi - v-i

Journald - journald (like journal and the d like Harold)

Sed - sed

Man - maan

zorn-shell, do-as, s-s-h

Zed ess aitch

Zee shell, or zish or just each letter ze es aych depends on my mood and if I’m feeling spicy.

I say zsh, s s h, and sudo. But I'm Finnish and we're literal folk language wise.

Only correct answer is whatever theprimeagen says

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