Hello, I'm native german.
It's difficult for me to explain to english speaking people my pronounciation of SuSE in written english, but I give it a try: the U as in "smooth" and the E as in "eleanor (rigby)" :-) the S is NOT pronounced "ts", never, but C is sometimes pronounced like "ts", see below. Z is always pronounced like "ts", see Konrad Zuse :-) sounds almost like SuSE, except for the "t" at the beginning. CICS in Germany is pronounced like "tsicks", you know, the german version of the old latin rule: C before I and E is pronounced as "ts", otherwise "k". Regards Bernd Am Die, 05 Aug 2003 schrieben Sie: > Serendipitously, I have two visiting Swedes at hand. Confronted separately > with 'SuSE' written on a scrap of paper, they both said > > TSOO-seh > > with the accent, not a strong one, on the first syllable. > > I suspect, however, that anglophones, Germans, and Swedes are going to > continue to pronounce it a bit differently. The precedents are bad. > Agreement about how to promnounce names and acronyms is hard to come by. > After many decades Brits pronounce 'CICS' as 'kicks', Americans say > see-eye-see-ess, and francophones, even Canadian ones, say 'keeks'. > > John Gilmore > SystemCraft LLC > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
