[Gllug] Pronunciation of SuSE?

Dave Jones davej at suse.de
Wed May 29 14:18:59 UTC 2002


On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 08:11:41PM +0100, Jake Jellinek wrote:

 > I'm not so sure, my good friend & business partner Mr Nick Mailer (who can 
 > probably provide more detail than I can on the story) once asked a question 
 > about Software RAID inclusion (or reasons for lack of) in SuSE at a 
 > developers conference, mis-pronouncing SuSE as "Sooz". The SuSE chap 
 > answering (as I say, I don't have all the details as to who it was exactly 
 > etc.) was most upset, and would not answer the question, demanding that 
 > Nick repeat after him, "soos-ZA,... soos-ZA as in sousaphone, repeat after 
 > me now, soos-ZA".

I do hope that wasn't me. I recall someone at the UKUUG event last year
asking me about RAID and the installer. Hmm. Ho-hum, so I'm a hypocrite.
Maybe I was in an odd mood that day. I'm not usually pedantic. Honest 8-)


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