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I say Sudo just like you, blackbinary, "sue-doe".
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nicefinger wrote:zu-buntu.
So how do you and all the "zooboontoo" sayers out there pronounce this
... I would pronounce one zooboontoo & the other zubuntu
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in german it is no problem, it is ksubuntu.
i can see how it is difficult in english though.
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Zoo-bun-too, I think ooo-boon-too sounds strange, even thought I know it's correct 
I also say Lynn-icks as opposed to lie-nucks.
sudo as sue-dough.
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I pronounce it linucks too, and I pronounce sudo Suedoe....Sue do just sounds kinda weird to me now because I've mispronounced it so long.
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ksu-buntu.
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shoo-boontoo
not kidding, in portuguese "x" has 3 possible sounds: "ks", "z" and "sh".
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why is it all linux/open source projects seem to be pronounced a weird way? even though most people will only see the written form.
Gnome, youre supposed to pronounce the G, like Gnu, even though thats an acronym, so it should be G N U.
Vi, supposedly pronounce V-eye, although i don't know how youre supposed to pronounce vim.
the one that gets me is xfce, i pronounce it is X-effice, although thats probably wrong
ps, while where on the subject, how do you pronounce tty ?
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I think both Xfce and tty are pronounced as initialisms.
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pvsage wrote:
I think both Xfce and tty are pronounced as initialisms.
then why not gnu (the project) ?
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I say Zoo-buntu.
It just flows off the tongue nicer for me.
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pvsage wrote:I think both Xfce and tty are pronounced as initialisms.
then why not gnu (the project) ?
I believe gnu is not an initialism because it is supposed to be pronounced like the animal.
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I say it the Lojbani way 
x(phlegm)ooo-boon-too
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as far I know, the way is zoobuntu but I pronounce it hu - buntu (compared with the sound of the J in spanish, just like the x on México on spanish)
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I had believed that the animal, gnu, is pronounced to rhyme with the word, 'new,' whereas Gnu, as in Gnu's Not Unix, is pronounced Guh-New. The reason all these things acquire the weird pronunciations is because for so very long the computer geek subculture was just that, a subculture closed to outsiders.
Why do young urban youth invent new slang? To make their own group more inclusive, and to exclude outsiders. In the beginning, a person who said Lie-nix was marked as a big purple n00b. Why 1337 writing? For the same reason: if you ain't bright enough to catch on, I figure you ain't wit it enuff to be ma fren. Ya digg?
Gnome once stood for Gnu Object something or other, and even though it has changed enough to make that acronym obsolete, the pronunciation has largely stuck. Xfce, on the other hand, somehow never got a pronunciation, even though for a couple of years I called it X-face. So it's X-f-c-e. Wikipedia says so, and you know they're always authoritative, right?
Linux is always with the short 'i,' because in Swedish, Torvalds first name is pronounced Leenus, and Lih-nix is closer in sound to Leenus. And even though he has moved from Helsinki to Portland, and now doesn't mind if people call him Lie-nus, Linux is still Lih-nix.
I guess the OS hasn't relocated. Ha!
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And I say Zu-boon-tu. I have an annoying tendency to pronounce foreign words correctly in the middle of an English sentence, whether it is 'weltschmerz' or 'penchant.'
I also say U-boon-tu, most of the time. I think of the African humanitarian concept, which is pronounced that way in Zulu. But if I'm around someone who says U-bunn-tu, I often find myself changing without willing it.
I'm like that. I pick up accents easily, too. I listen too closely, I suppose.
EDIT: It has been pointed out to me that I now say U-bunn-tu far more often than I say U-boon-to. "Constant exposure does inevitably lead to some form of contamination, Doctor."
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"Wikipedia says so, and you know they're always authoritative, right?"
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