Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] S.u.S.E. pronunciation
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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... ;) 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?
Gordy Heitzman gordster@juno.com 612-429-9500 " Just say Suzy, and get on with it... " On Mon, 02 Feb 1998 12:31:45 -0800 Bodo Bauer
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... :))
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