Zed-shell, soo-dough, s-s-h

For me, zsh is pronounced “bash.”

(One-upping your “full controversy,” LOL)

When I first saw sudo I assumed it was pronounced “pseudo” because it lets you fake like you’re doing stuff as another user. So that has stuck for me. (And despite all evidence, I still low-key believe it’s a clever pun encompassing both that and the official “superuser do.”)

For ZSH and SSH I just speak the letters: Z-S-H, S-S-H. Sudo as “SUE-do” “SUE-doo”.

One I wonder about is xrandr. I say “EKS-rand-ur”, have heard others say “eks-R-and-R”.

edit: for sudo long vowel. Also I tend to stress the H in ZSH and SSH.

zsh: “Z shell”
ssh: S-S-H
sudo: I always think of it as “pseudo”

ZSH = Zee-shell
SSH = S-S-H
SUDO = Sue-dough
KornShell = Aaaarrre you readyyyyyyyyy!

Zsh: “Zed shell” or “Zee shell” (depends)

SSH: spelt out S-S-H (both in English and in my native language)

sudo: like “sumo wrestler” only with a “d”

Zee Ess Aitch

Ess Ess Aitch

Psuedo

Sue-doo is weird and unnatural.

I never read it out loud, but in my mind it’s always “zeesh”

sudo is just pseudo and ssh is just the 3 letters

Zee shell
Sue dough
Ess ess aitch

That said, I have no problems changing my pronunciations if I find the creators or whatever said, “Actually, it’s pronounced <like this>.”

I know it’s not consistent but I read them like zsh = zee shell, ssh I spell out “s s h”, sudo I say /ˈsuː.doʊ/. or “soo dough”

fish: fish

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.

Its fun to talk about SQL pronunciation as well.

I am a fan of “ess Quaal”

zsh: ĵ
ssh: “ssh bby is ok”
sudo: like sumo wrestling