Godot is named after the play Waiting for Godot, and is usually pronounced like in the play. Different languages have different pronunciations for Godot and we find it beautiful.
But there used to be an extra line that recommends pronouncing it like "god-oh":
For native English speakers, we recommend "GOD-oh"; the "t" is silent like in the French original.
It was removed in favor of making the pronunciation non-prescriptive:
Godot pronunciation is documented at https://godotengine.org/press/
But there used to be an extra line that recommends pronouncing it like "god-oh": It was removed in favor of making the pronunciation non-prescriptive:https://github.com/godotengine/godot-website/pull/638
https://github.com/godotengine/godot-website/commit/c9053182...