From jgray@suse.com Tue Feb  3 08:01:51 1998
From: jgray@suse.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] S.u.S.E. pronunciation
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 09:01:51 +0100
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Hi!

I like your approach, Gordy :)  We like to leave lots of latitude, too.
Before we opened up the US office I did a poll with friends to ask them
how they would say the name so as to give me some guidance. Well, it was
no help at all b/c I got 4-5 different pronunciations with almost no
regularity to it. I personally say "SUE-zeh" but I encourage everyone to
say just what rolls off of their tongues!

At least YaST is a little easier... ;)=20

Happy pronouncing!

James Gray

> Hi-                           " Just say Suzy, and get on with it..."
>       A year or two ago there was a lot of discussion about whether Linux
> was pronounced like Linus T. does it, (LEE-nooks) or whether it would be
> more like the English "Linus", but I've heard almost no discussion of
> this
> lately; everyone seems to have gotten past it.  LYE-nux is pretty much
> IT,
> for North Americans, anyway, with a few holdouts for Lennox, or whatever.
> [ and if you read this mailbag for a week or so, you begin to realize
> that
> the Proper pronunciation should probably be LOO-nix, short for
> Lunatix...]
>       But, I digress--  I think, for my 50 bucks, S.u.S.E. is SUZY, or
> Susie,
> which are the same.   The Germans (and God bless them, I'm 3/4 German)
> can say it however they'd like to.  We all say and spell telephone a
> little differently, but no one argues about it.  And remember, SuSE is,
> after all,
> an acronym, not a word, which gives some artistic latitude, eh?
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> Gordy  Heitzman         gordster(a)juno.com              612-429-9500
>    " Just say Suzy, and get on with it...
> "
> On Mon, 02 Feb 1998 12:31:45 -0800 Bodo Bauer <bb(a)suse.de> writes:
> >
> >Mitch Wyle wrote:
> >>
> >> i had heard "sooo-zie"  (as in English Susie)
> >> and Soo-zeh (as in German suse)
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >this is a funny subject to talk about, as we are ourself not sure how
> >to pronounce it in english... :-)
> >
> >But I think we should try to get the german pronounciation established
> >here in the US too. This is the way the most SuSE users pronounce it.
> >If there are more SuSE users in the US than in germany we can
> >change... :))
> >
> >Ciao,
> >       BB
> >--
> >Bodo Bauer          S.u.S.E., LLC                    fon +1-510-835
> >7873
> >bb(a)suse.de          458 Santa Clara Avenue           fax +1-510-835
> >7875
> >http//www.suse.com  Oakland CA, 94610  USA
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