SOO-DOO or SOO-DOUGH?

Hah, I wrote a blog post like that one time at blog camp. The user accounts in my examples were called toby and goblinking. I was very pleased with myself.

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thecodingnerd256@reddit

Thank you hermione, its nitpicking like that which makes sure nobody wants to be your friend

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siodhe@reddit

"sue" + "due" "su"peruser "do" , or more accurately "s"witch "u"ser and do", though I suppose that should be "syoo" + "due" ;-)

Not "sue" + "dough", that's just weird.

Amusing that it's basically the Japanese abbreviation style. I'm a fan.

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lebean@reddit

Except the guy who literally invented the utility, in a talk, was asked and said it's soo-doo.

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Fazaman@reddit

And the guy who created GIF says it's "JIF". Doesn't mean they're right ;)

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SEI_JAKU@reddit

Oh neat, my guess was wrong then. Thanks.

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RaspberryPiBen@reddit

I am continuously disappointed that fakeroot is not called pseudosudo.

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pak9rabid@reddit

$ alias pseudosudo=‘fakeroot’

now it is =D

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archiekane@reddit

What's stopping you from starting this new trend?

I like it.

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Salamok@reddit

No, it is short for super user do, so it is soodoo.

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AndydeCleyre@reddit

Honestly I thought it was Ellemay OH.

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Andrew_Neal@reddit

Right, like "LiPO" is short for "lithium polymer".

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Andrew_Neal@reddit

The first one. I was pointing out an abbreviation with a universally accepted pronunciation that does not reflect the phonics of the source words.

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lebean@reddit

Dang, you took a downtown beating for being factually correct. It's soo-doo and yes, the original another agrees and says soo-doo.

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Salamok@reddit

There is no doubt that the "doo" in do stands for the word do and should sound like do do. :)

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devloren@reddit

Oh, like giraffe?

Maybe, the soft vowel has more to do with the pronunciation than anything.

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jet_heller@reddit

But it's not. It's from su which stands for 'switch user'. So, it's 'switch user and do'.

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Why pronounce it "short for super user do" when you could pronounce it the good way "pseudo" or the right-but-it's-ok-to-be-wrong way "soo-doo". It just doesn't roll off the tongue. I also don't pronounce it "guh-nome" because that just sounds ridiculous imo, even though it is apparently pronounced that way.

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benuski@reddit

So? We change the pronunciation of acronyms from their component words all the time

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dickhardpill@reddit

I believe the creator of sudo pronounces it soodoo-

Choosy developers choose GIF but people still pronounce it with a hard G.

I don’t personally care one way or the other. Just saying, people gonna people.

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jet_heller@reddit

And this is how I pronounce it because it makes a regular shell a psuedo root shell.

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Randolpho@reddit

Folk etymology is always the best etymology

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mrdeworde@reddit

Ditto - I long assumed that was the joke, only to eventually have a (fellow) neckbeard inform me of "superuser do".

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Dugen@reddit

Someone needs to make a tool named pseudo that does something different just so everyone stops mispronouncing sudo.

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kaplanfx@reddit

This is correct I believe, even though it should technically be sue do because it’s a portmanteau of the abbreviation for super user (su) and the command do (as in, you should do something).

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letterboxfrog@reddit

Pseudo Echo

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CHEESEFUCKER96@reddit

CORRECT

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Thedudely1@reddit

Soo-dough! Who the hell says soo-doo??

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Sinyria@reddit

As a German speaker, I pronounce it soo-dough. Make with that knowledge what you will. :)

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gedafo3037@reddit

Sudo stands for “superuser do”, so i have always pronounced it soodoo.

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No-Satisfaction9594@reddit

Sussidio because of Phil Collins and I have two ears and a heart.

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dyne87@reddit

Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist.

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BoioBBoioB@reddit

Philadelphia Collins, owner operator of the dirty burger

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No-Satisfaction9594@reddit

You starin' at my gut?

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BoioBBoioB@reddit

Just having a peek

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majamin@reddit

DAMN IT you beat me to it

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PM_ME_UR_ROUND_ASS@reddit

Phil would be proud, but then again he probly wouldn't know the diffrence between su and sudo if his entire Genesis discography depended on it.

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TheHeartAndTheFist@reddit

He meant to write a song about people who type “sudo su” but sang about “su sudo” instead

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TheHeartAndTheFist@reddit

He meant to write a song about people who type “sudo su” but sang about “su sudo” instead

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GrandfatherTrout@reddit

She don’t even know my login

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Fr0gm4n@reddit

But I think she reports me just the same.

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habartman@reddit

As you do, ’s u do, sudo

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bironic_hero@reddit

I’m not gonna say “soodoo” nor am I gonna say “guh-nome” or “GNU/Linux” lol

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SEI_JAKU@reddit

One of these is not like the others. "GNU/Linux" is just some third-party being bitter.

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Zeyode@reddit

If it was to be pronounced "soo-doo" in english, it would be spelled "sudu", "sudoo", or "soodoo". Singular "o" implies an "oh" sound.

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SEI_JAKU@reddit

In English, there are no static rules like this around acronyms and contractions, which are not even considered proper English to begin with.

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tempestkitty@reddit

S U do.

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iiMurk_@reddit

But isn’t superuser one word? So by that logic would be soo doo

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SEI_JAKU@reddit

Well, that'd be a compound, but apparently it was never "super user" and instead "substitute/switch user".

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funforgiven@reddit

It is not superuser.

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Superb_Raccoon@reddit

This is Unix. You go now.

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tempestkitty@reddit

yes but when you say superuser it sounds like two words.

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SEI_JAKU@reddit

The third path of darkness.

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igorpk@reddit

This is especially useful when teaching someone who's new to Linux - helps with the mnemonic 'SuperUser Do'.

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blue9er@reddit

Indeed. Ess you doo.

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FlightSimmer99@reddit

ive only ever heard soo-dough

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CancerSpidey@reddit

Sourdough?

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SEI_JAKU@reddit

sourdough would be a good name for some useful sudo related tool.

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FrostyDiscipline7558@reddit

I'll allow it.

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pm_your_unique_hobby@reddit

'Super User Do' i think is what it means unabbreviated

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Sinaaaa@reddit

That was my answer in a job interview & I have been told it's switch user do or substitute user do instead.

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throwaway824512312@reddit

lol what shit job expects you to care more about the acronym than the function

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Jeklah@reddit

It is, I still say soo-dough.

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Andrew_Neal@reddit

If the de-abbreviated words dictated how the abbreviation was pronounced, "LiPO" would be pronounced "lih-pah" because those are the corresponding parts of "lithium polymer".

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fnord123@reddit

D.A.R.E. would be dah-ray.

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_SPOOSER@reddit

Gif would be jif

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Temporary_Pie2733@reddit

And despite knowing this, I still rhyme it with pseudo. It just looks so much like judo :)

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Babbalas@reddit

Same. It's like "pseudo root"

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IDUnavailable@reddit

Substitute user, do. It just defaults to root but can be used to execute something as a different user.

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stillthegodcomplex@reddit

superuser doin your mom

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tar_xf@reddit

Fuckin got em

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SEI_JAKU@reddit

I was initially under the impression that it was like "pseudo" (soo-dough), but after realizing it was a contraction for "super user do", soo-doo, or even just pronouncing out the letters S and U + doo, make more sense. Then again, maybe the designers wanted it to be like "pseudo" after all, I dunno.

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not-hardly@reddit

Sudo like judo.

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ensemblestars69@reddit

joodoo

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not-hardly@reddit

Brew... How could you?

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MidgardDragon@reddit

Sue Doe

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Slight_Manufacturer6@reddit

Both... depending on context.
Suu-Doo as a verb like I am going to sudo something.

Suu-Dough when I am talking about the name of the program.

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LuggerBugs@reddit

Soo-doo

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husky_whisperer@reddit

SUHD-OH

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HiYa_Dragon@reddit

Doas

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eli_tf@reddit

I love how people always argue how to pronounce things. As a finnish person I have never been wrong. These things come natural. It is just ”sudo” as you write it.

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riisen@reddit

Super User DO

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Grimlord_XVII@reddit

Sudo has to rhyme with Woodo.

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Western_Objective209@reddit

I think since sudo is short for "superuser do", you should follow the pronunciation of "su" in "super" and "do" just as the word "do", so like sue-due

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Tasty-Chipmunk3282@reddit

make me a sandwich

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Tasty-Chipmunk3282@reddit

majamin@reddit

Sussudio

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skeetd@reddit

Sue doe

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ModusPwnins@reddit

Pseudo, as in you are a "false root" when you use it

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Imaginary-Shower3271@reddit

Soo-dough

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CW_Waster@reddit

As in super do

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BaconCatBug@reddit

I say Sue-Doh

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Lapis_Wolf@reddit

Oh..

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jimmpony@reddit

I log in as root

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sidusnare@reddit

Like psuedo.

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TheRealEkimsnomlas@reddit

Dough. Doo requires a U or second O. One o is short, two os is long.

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EmbeddedSoftEng@reddit

Ess You Doo, ya philistines!

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UnshapelyDew@reddit

soo-dough

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Crunk_Creeper@reddit

Say "sue-DOH!", like Homer Simpson, to impress your friends and colleagues.

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zlice0@reddit

asking the real questions

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JaKrispy72@reddit

Next you are going to say it’s “eff-ess tab” and not “f-stab”…

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Fr0gm4n@reddit

Ooohhh noooo, not my tracer-t!

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Magus7091@reddit

I was told it's "substitute user do" so I pronounce it soo-doo

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dantose@reddit

With the same sound as "GIF" obviously

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Open_Mortgage_4645@reddit

It's soo-do. Nobody with any self-respect says soo-doo.

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SuAlfons@reddit

sudo like in superuser-do!

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michaelpaoli@reddit

superuser do, so Sue do

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viper474@reddit

What about “substitute user do”?

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DexterFoxxo@reddit

судо

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monolalia@reddit

Zoo Dough. I know what it stands for, but as a word it’s just two nonsense syllables to me, and I pronounce them as I would in my native language. Not that I’m sure I’ve ever said it out loud.

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daretogo@reddit

Sudo make me a sandwhich.

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0tus@reddit

The way Native English Speakers write pronunciations has never made any sense to me.

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throwawaypsql@reddit

Sue-Dough

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moopet@reddit

soo-be-doo-be-doo

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Anaconda077@reddit

Slavic language speaker here, pronouncing sudo as is written.

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George0202_best@reddit

I pronounce it exactly like you would spell it in latin

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Susp-icious_-31User@reddit

I pronounce it soo dough and I don't care if it's wrong cause I'm the only person I talk to.

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troffy78@reddit

Well it stands for super user do, so sudo

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syklemil@reddit

Neither, it's [sʉːdʊ] for me.

År tu spell itt witt /r/JuropijanSpeling, Ai pronæons itt "sudo".

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MythologicalEngineer@reddit

I always hear sudowoodo

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cthart@reddit

Soo D’oh!

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ten-oh-four@reddit

You say ~~potato~~ sudo, I say ~~potato~~ sudo

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cthart@reddit

Soo D’uh!

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tplive@reddit

It's "s-u-do" - > "ess ju du", or "as you do".. Everyone knows that. O.K.A.Y ?

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RagnarRipper@reddit

Suh-do suh like the lu in luddite do like the su in sudo

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_mnel@reddit

Sue-dough

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do-un-to@reddit

"SOO DOO", as it was intended, because it's about "superuser do."

But I also say "oo BOON too" and "JAY sun" because I'm a freakin' pedant. I just care about words and their meanings and etymology and pronunciation, enough to go against the grain of the unwashed hordes. Come at me, barbarians!

I acknowledge that the GIF format creator pronounced it "JIF" but I don't consider him adequately authoritative on good pronunciation (even of his own creation).

(By the way, you can often get an idea of how something is pronounced by its Wikipedia page. No need to post a post on Reddit. But I do appreciate the community disucssion.)

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Andrew_Neal@reddit

LiPO batteries would like a word.

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do-un-to@reddit

Did I neglect them? I didn't realize.

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Andrew_Neal@reddit

By your logic, the pronunciation should be "lih-pah" rather than the universally accepted "lie-poe".

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stillthegodcomplex@reddit

I say "soodough", "oo BOON too", and "DEE-bee-in"

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do-un-to@reddit

1/3, I feel.

"SOO dough" I think is common enough, and sanctioned by "authorities," but "SOO DOO" is easy enough to say, common enough to be readily understood and thus practical, the original intention, and meaningfully indicative of its nature and purpose. "SOO dough" does sound like "pseudo," which is a concept that's involved.

"DEE bee in" is very common, but does not reflect and respect creators Deb and Ian.

Excellent use of Bantu, though.

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richardrietdijk@reddit

Not talking to people in real life makes this problem go away.

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Level-Suspect2933@reddit

nepo demo expo logo sudo

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doomygloomytunes@reddit

As sudo is derived from "substitute user do" or more recently "super user do", the "do" is literally said as you would "do"

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MutantOctopus@reddit

I first saw it via XKCD when I was young and dumb and didn't know anything about linux or the origin of the command name. So my brain mapped "pseudo" to it and it's been there since.

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Ok-Anywhere-9416@reddit

It's "superuser do" (so it might be sew-doo), but I like to pronounce it "soo-dough".

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gmes78@reddit

run0

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RoxyMusicVEVO@reddit

Soo-doo right, you soo-doo right, soo-doo right, you soo-doo right

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patt@reddit

su - substitute user - use to change your shell to operate as a different user. User defaults to but is not necessarily root.

sudo - do one something as a substitute user. User defaults to but is not necessarily root.

I'll understand what you mean no matter how you pronounce it, but the above should make it pretty clear why I pronounce it 'soo-dew'.

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IrrerPolterer@reddit

Superuser do. So soodoo

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A_spiny_meercat@reddit

Su, su sudo-oh

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thayerw@reddit

I've always pronounced it pseudo because it reminds me of Pseudo.com from the early 90s, which were some of my fondest old web memories.

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Circuitizen@reddit

soo-d'oh!

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Thoguth@reddit

I actually use both.

Also, VIM VIM VIMVIMVIMVIM

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shushmyr@reddit

as a russian i say soo dough - судо

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Fitzriy@reddit

It's data

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hazelEarthstar@reddit

soo doo

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ShinyTechThings@reddit

It stands for "super user do" and the pronunciation is the same.

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redisgreener@reddit

I have a colleague who pronounces Azure “Asz-Your” and Confluence “Con (short pause) Fluence”. If I didn’t think he was as otherwise alright, I would have sabotaged his work for it long ago.

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BlakJakNZ@reddit

Like ludo, I say sudo. Nicely aligns with pseudo.

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Pleasant-Shallot-707@reddit

Sew-doh

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ipsirc@reddit

doas

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lonelyroom-eklaghor@reddit

alpine

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BrokenG502@reddit

You misspelt bsd there (also alpine and a few other distros by default). Doas is also packaged on a number of other distros, arch and fedora come to mind, but probably most distros have it.

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JockstrapCummies@reddit

"Dwaahs"?

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bhones@reddit

Sue Doe. I don’t sue doo bang bang, I sue doe bang bang.

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crashorbit@reddit

Someone might execute the command

sudo -u mail -s

They then 'become' the psuedo-user called mail.

We read that command as soo-doo dash you mail dash ess. We might then say: "I used soo-doo to become the psuedo-user mail so I could clean up the mail queue".

Have a good day.

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NoidoDev@reddit

Sue-dough. Vaguely.

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user_null_ix@reddit

If you want to know, here's a video with Robert Coggeshall, he is one of sudo's authors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaAwl3HN5ds

And from developer Todd C. Miller (https://www.sudo.ws/docs/troubleshooting/#how-do-you-pronounce-sudo)

Howdo you pronounce sudo

The official pronunciation is soo-doo (for su ‘do’). However, an alternate pronunciation, a homophone of ‘pseudo’, is also common.

:)

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SARK-ES1117821@reddit

I work with Todd. He recently gave a great internal tech talk about 30 years of maintaining sudo. Had some funny / crazy emails he’s received from people who found his address in the open source license details of their phone.

He says soo-doo.

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IWantAGI@reddit

Sue-doe

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RobotechRicky@reddit

Sew-Dough

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sudoaptupdate@reddit

Tbh I'm not committed to either. I just say whatever feels more natural at the moment.

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im_green_bean@reddit

super user do

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HTTPanda@reddit

Rhymes with judo

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benjamarchi@reddit

Super user do. So, Su from super and do from do.

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PrefersAwkward@reddit

Both are valid IMO, but I say Soo Doo because I lean on what it abbreviates (superuser do) more than how it reads. I did say Su Dough for years, before I learned what it stands for

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ebb_omega@reddit

Same here. To me it's like gif. Or fuck, it's like Linux. There's this whole debate I keep hearing amongst North Americans whether it's pronounced Lie-nicks or Lih-nicks when it's originally pronounced Lee-nooks.

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PrefersAwkward@reddit

My problem with J-gif is that it's ambiguous. G-gif is more clear because the Guh sound is rarely ever anything but G

Idk why English has to have so many exceptions and overlapping. C for example has no unique phonics identity, but someone proposed it could take a CH sound if we were to start over on the English spellings of words. So Channel would be Cannel, and Celsius would be Selsius. Then K and S would take their usual sounds.

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Superb_Raccoon@reddit

And I hate peanut butter.

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smile_e_face@reddit

Yep. I used to get annoyed by this, but then I started thinking of it as "pseudo" and that made it all click in my brain.

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whosdr@reddit

But I pronounce pseudo as sue-dough. Do people pronounce it otherwise?

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smile_e_face@reddit

Right, that's the idea. It's technically "supposed" to be su-DOO, as in "superuser do." But I've always said sue-DOUGH, even though I know it's wrong. But then I realized I can think of it as "pseudo," which makes sense, and is pronounced the way I prefer.

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whosdr@reddit

Ahh I see. I consider it just part of the vocabulary. Similarly when I write cat <file> I think of cat as some verb that prints a file content, rather than shorthand for concatenate.

So apparently I treat commands and scripts as a second language, quite literally.

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kadoskracker@reddit

This is what I initially used to put the pieces together cause your acting like an admin, or rather pseudo-admin for the command given. Even though, now that doesn't really make much sense cause you're not a false admin.

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JonBot5000@reddit

Exactly! You're psuedo-admin just like [Sudowoodo](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Sudowoodo_(Pok%C3%A9mon)) is psuedo-wood (He's actually rock for those unfamiliar).

Hence... sue-dough

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just_a_octoling@reddit

i always said SUU-DOO

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Superb_Raccoon@reddit

Rut roh!

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ancaleta@reddit

No that’s just disgusting bro

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Superb_Raccoon@reddit

Just say the word, oh, su-sussudio...

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pcgy@reddit

I’d always thought the correct pronunciation was ess you doo, as in Super User Do, although I tend towards hearing sue dough in my head when I type it at the command line. Before sudo there was su, which was pronounced ess you. Then we can move onto vee eye being the correct pronunciation of the vi editor 😀

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Hari___Seldon@reddit

Lol when I first learned it decades ago, the head of the lab said it's soo-doh (pseudo-) so that we don't forget that we're only playing god for a minute. It was corny but it sure is memorable. And yes, the permissions timed out after 1 min 😵‍💫

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Better-Quote1060@reddit

Pronounce it like Scooby-Doo

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mveinot@reddit

It’s spelled “sudo” but pronounced “throat warbler mangrove”

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SpookyDragonJB@reddit

In '98I was taught it as soo-doh, as it temporarily gives you pseudo root privileges. I never heard it referred as soo-doo until I started watching YouTube videos about Linux more recently.

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Soakitincider@reddit

sue due

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Wildweed@reddit

sue dough is how it sounds.

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CCCBMMR@reddit

I have always been understood however I have said it.

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ithink2mush@reddit

Sue doh

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Xemptuous@reddit

I know it's "soodoo" for "su do" but I still pronounce it "soo dough" cus it's slightly less muscle effort to say in my language cus I don't even have to use my tongue, but soodoo requires that tongue to do the d and that d be tiring

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NotMyThrowaway6991@reddit

Sue-dough because it rolls off the tongue better and it's hard to relearn how to say it. I wish it was more apparent when learning that it's actually sue-do

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El_McNuggeto@reddit

ES YOU DEE OH

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HonestlyFuckJared@reddit

Soo… d’oh!

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Wind-charger@reddit

I have never typed sudoe…ever. Eeevvvveeeerrrrr!

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whamra@reddit

In my head, I say soo doo. Out load I end up saying soo dough.

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pHorniCaiTe@reddit

Same here. In my head it’s also two distinct words: “sue do.” Out loud it’s one word.

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jokebreath@reddit

I know these things also, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I say soodoo, dammit. Sounds too much like Skidoo or poopoo. Absolute clown word, no thank you.

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segfault0x001@reddit

IIRC It did not stand for “superuser do”. The command su was for switching users, sudo was for running a command as another user without having to switch users and then switch back. It did (and probably still does) allow you to pass a username as an argument. root was just the default when no other username was provided. So perhaps the correct pronunciation should be “ESS-YEW-DOO”. However, I am old and I could be misremembering.

And fwiw I say SOO-DOUGH.

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Dynamiclynk@reddit

Sue due or sudo because you do su

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pancakeQueue@reddit

More important do you pronounce it, fs-tab or f-stab.

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ChocolateDonut36@reddit

in my language we spell "sudo" as "sudo"

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Dilligence@reddit

Sudo Woodo

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lelddit97@reddit

superuser do is correct, but nobody cares and you can pronounce it how you want

linux / lienux nome / g-nome

tons of others

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tpittari@reddit

I say soo-doo but i have to sing it outloud like this

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skydiveguy@reddit

its not spelled "sodo" so why would you pronounce it like that?

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PeterNoTail@reddit

Like pseudo (sue-d'oh)

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StretchAcceptable881@reddit

I pronounce it as sudo

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briantforce@reddit

I was team dough until I found out that it comes from “super user do”

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VALTIELENTINE@reddit

It’s really short for su do, su being the command for substitute user.

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MichaelTunnell@reddit

The answer is no one knows what it’s supposed to be so practically no one cares lol so which ever you want

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Batcastle3@reddit

So, personal lore, I pronounce it as "soo-dough" because I used to take karate and they taught us a technique called a "sudo" (it's basically a karate chop). And that's how they pronounced it.

When I got into linux and learned this command, since it was spelled the same way I just pronounced it the same way. Made sense to me! ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

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CumCloggedArteries@reddit

"Soo-doo" sounds too much like "doo-doo" for my tastes

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ronasimi@reddit

This is a spaces to tabs comparison. I pronounce sudo as "sudo" and spaces are bad.

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NumbN00ts@reddit

I used to be a dougher. Though of it as being a pseudo admin to get a task done. This was also at a time where I was reckless with computers to the point where I gained some skills but have nothing to show for it.

Now I’m a doer. Better to remind myself what kind of fuckery I could be doing when I put sudo at the front of a command. It also came with recognizing that I didn’t truly understand what a user is. I am not root. I should not be root unless I am playing around on an off network machine that will not touch the network ever. But, I can tell the user root to do something. The user root will listen and do as I say, for better or worse. I am not the user root, but I am that user’s boss

Long way and history about why I say it that way now, but it was an important step in my understanding of sys-admin as a curiosity and helps me make sure I’m serious about what I’m intending when I have to use that command.

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bswalsh@reddit

I usually forget I need it until after I've entered the command. So, for me, it's more of a su-D'oh!

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ronasimi@reddit

! Is your friend

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jovenitto@reddit

sudo means "super user do". So it's "doo" not "dough"

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ronasimi@reddit

I suppose you prefer spaces to tabs and think Python is fine.

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LFOdeathtrain@reddit

Suh dude

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Connir@reddit

sue due

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JonathanEde@reddit

sue, d’oh!

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NateTut@reddit

Sooby dooby doo.

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pezezin@reddit

/'sudo/

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RedditBurner00000000@reddit

rhymes with QQ

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inn0cent-bystander@reddit

There are many that pronounce data as data, instead of data. But all of us can agree that if someone instead pronounces it as data instead of the other two, we'll all go after them.

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pnlrogue1@reddit

It is short for Super User DO so it should be SooDoo but that's as stupid as pronouncing GIF as 'jif' so it'll always be pronounced like pseudo to me

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zelkovamoon@reddit

Dough, obviously

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NorthStarZero@reddit

ESS-YOO DOO

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realmuffinman@reddit

alias prettyplease="sudo"

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Lost-Tech-7070@reddit

Soo-dough

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rdrcrmatt@reddit

Sue-dough

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MorningCareful@reddit

Sue doh

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Sea_Today8613@reddit

Soo-dough. "suudough apt install"

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cybersynn@reddit

sue-do

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authaus0@reddit

The 'U' in SCUBA stands for underwater but you wouldn't pronounce it skuhbuh, it's skooba. Acronyms and abbreviations generally have their own pronunciation regardless of the sounds of what they stand for. I've always pronounced sudo like pseudo

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doktorivan@reddit

It may be SUperuser DO, but it's "soo-dough" for three reasons. First, are you root? Well, you're pseudo-root. Second, it rhymes with judo and proves your Linux-fu is way strong. Third- and this is really the most important- in decent languages, vowels have a consistent sound. Only in English could "su" and "do" rhyme.

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CatoDomine@reddit

WYM "used to stand for superuser do"? I didn't think that's changed ....

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thee_earl@reddit

Suue-doo

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RQuarx@reddit

Sudo, su like su in superuser, do like do in do

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guajiro_soy@reddit

In Spanish it means "I sweat".

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AlarmDozer@reddit

Hey, sometimes it really be like that.

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AlarmDozer@reddit

If this ain’t pedantic. Say whatever is needed for the typist to enter the right value.

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themanfromoctober@reddit

Like the tree Pokemon, yes

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rklrkl64@reddit

I've always pronounced it soo-dough, probably because of its spelling similarity to judo.

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Ultimate_Mugwump@reddit

I have always pronounced it as “su-dough” even after learning that “soo-doo” is inarguably the intended pronunciation because of exactly what you said, it’s literally “DO as SU”

but seeing as it doesn’t actually matter for anything i have not bothered retraining my brain to say it right(though i do have this whole discussion in my head every time i type it)

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