Godot -- You're Saying It Wrong... Or Not?

If you've watched many Godot videos, you've probably also heard many pronunciations.

In this video we look at why Godot is called Godot and how exactly you say that anyways.

[OP-tjtj]

Godot devs do not have unity when it comes to the pronunciation and this makes it so unreal.

[Rhomagus]

You're saying it right. Godot is in reference to the play "Waiting for Godot". The line on their website references the same line in a rather cheeky way when they say on that first line, "The Game Engine You Waited For." In essence "you've' been "Waiting for Godot". Godot being a character before it was a game engine means it's pronounced according to the reference. So God-oh it is. I learned about this in an American High School and the proper pronunciation was taught during that time. If a Frenchmen's name is Guy, it is pronounced Gi in English. His name isn't pronounced like Guy in English if he's a Frenchman. If an Englishman is named Guy then his name is pronounced like the word guy, but since this is a character with the name Godot and Beckett wrote it with the French pronunciation in mind as it's a means to not utter God's name in vain.

The allusion makes sense on several levels for a game engine. 1.) As a creator you're able to basically be a "God" of the world you decide to create using the Godot engine. 2.) The world isn't going to create itself and you'll spend a lot of time, "Waiting for Godot" if you don't get to work.

[UncleBurrito]

When there is nothing new happening in the game development industry and you are out of video ideas

[OctagonGaming]

I think Go-Dot (Like Robot) is the correct pronunciation because Juan Linitsky ( Godot's Creator ) pronounces it like that.

Source: The state of Godot, GDC

[dtstar]

Some people: Go-dot
Other people: Guh-dough
Me, an intellectual: God-otte

[vertigo]

Moral of the story: The Godot Devs are trolling us.

[pacman]

"today on GFS, the etymology of the name of a game engine"

[janish]

Native (British) English speaker here, I say Guh-dough. I would never have guessed I should be saying it any other way.

[Salmontres]

I've been pronouncing it Unity... is that not right?

[Foxtrop]

it should be renamed "go, do it"

[BxBL]

Coming soon an 300 pages essay on how to pronounce Godot correctly and the historical implications for the matter.

[fireside]

I've heard lots of people say "Waiting for Godot" and not one of them pronounced it as go-dot. It was always go-dough. It would be like calling Chevrolet, chev-ro-let as in "let" me buy your car. We just don't do that here in America. It's uncouth.

[lulsec]

LMAO I thought this was a click bait title 😂...

[richardeadon]

In English it's always been pronounced "GOD-oh", emphasis on the first syllable, as wikipedia says. It's only since the game engine took the name and Americans started trying to pronounce it that there's been any debate. Say it how you'd say it if it were spelt "Goddo".

[WerIstWieJesus]

"God knows" would be a better name.

[PJE]

A topic worth such a deep research. 😃 Amusing video.

[bexplosion]

In this regard it is maybe a good thing Delphi is seldom in the news here.

[jasonhall]

Not really a question about this vid but ... The demo you show in Godot a lot, where is that from?... I can't seem to find that demo level/project anywhere :)

[Zethneralith]

I think it's funny that you made an entire video on this subject. I'm also grateful that you made an entire video on this, since I did search YouTube for "How do you pronounce Godot?"

[grittynerd]

Polymorphism for the pronunciation of the name is appropriate for an engine that has not a definite scope (not just for 2D or 3D, etc), spreading over multiple needs and platforms, so i guess we can be fine being both right and wrong saying Godot whatever we want ;)