Kudos

[nq:1]I was listening to an American lady interviewed on a radio programme this morning. She used the word 'kudos' pronouncing ... I have always pronounced it as spelt 'kudos' Queue + dos Any comments? What is a 'kudo', anyway?`[/nq]
I believe Kudos is the brand name of a kind of snack food, so a kudo would be one item of such snack food.
Most of this could be resolved by looking up "kudos

[nq:1]I was listening to an American lady interviewed on a radio programme this morning. She used the word 'kudos' pronouncing ... I have always pronounced it as spelt 'kudos' Queue + dos Any comments? What is a 'kudo', anyway?`[/nq]
I believe the word 'kudos' is the correct word and that it has a similar meaning with 'salute'.
Kudos to Jennifer Lopez! = A salute to Jennifer Lopez!

[nq:1]I was listening to an American lady interviewed on a radio programme this morning. She used the word 'kudos' pronouncing ... have always pronounced it as spelt 'kudos' Queue + dos Any comments? What is a 'kudo', anyway?` Mike[/nq]
The seemingly smart-alecky answer is that "kudo" is the singular of the word pronounced "COO-doze". But it's actually a serious answer: look up "kudo" in the M

[nq:2]I was listening to an American lady interviewed on a ... Queue + dos Any comments? What is a 'kudo', anyway?`[/nq]
[nq:1]I believe Kudos is the brand name of a kind of snack food, so a kudo would be one item ... and the rest is history. In The Good Old Days, the second syllable was pronounced like the operating system DOS.[/nq]
Which is to say, it was pronounced very slowly and in a

[nq:2]I believe Kudos is the brand name of a kind ... the second syllable was pronounced like the operating system DOS.[/nq]
[nq:1]Which is to say, it was pronounced very slowly and in a somewhat uninformative way, but once you understood what was going on it was a wonderfully simple and intuitive pronunciation to work with.[/nq]
... except when you couldn't pronounce the last letter and h

[nq:1]I was listening to an American lady interviewed on a radio programme this morning. She used the word 'kudos' pronouncing it as the plural of 'kudo' 'kudose'[/nq]
Kudose would be the plural of kudo?
[nq:1]I have always pronounced it as spelt 'kudos' Queue + dos Any comments?[/nq]
In the US, queue is pronounced kyue. But in kudos, ku is pronounced koo or coo, with no y sound.
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[nq:2]I was listening to an American lady interviewed on a ... 'kudos' pronouncing it as the plural of 'kudo' 'kudose'[/nq]
[nq:1]Kudose would be the plural of kudo?[/nq]
I was trying to give her pronounciation.
[nq:2]I have always pronounced it as spelt 'kudos' Queue + dos Any comments?[/nq]
[nq:1]In the US, queue is pronounced kyue. But in kudos, ku is pronounced koo or coo, with

I usually say "COO-dose," and use it in the traditional way as a singular word meaning "praise." The only dictionary I have found which gives "COO-dose" and "CUE-dose" as one of the plurals of "kudo" ("COO-doh" or "CUE-doh") is the dictionary at www.infoplease.com (and the dictionary it is based upon, *The Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary,* 2nd ed.) The usual plurals of "kudo" are "COO

I have always pronounced it /'ku dos/ both vowels as in Spanish, s unvoiced. And the AHD supports me! Read the Usage Note: http://www.bartleby.com/61/27/K0112700.html
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