i usta say soo zee but my cousin stopped me cuz it usta be slang for vagina. =/
so now its soos or soosay

That is just about the worst argument in support of a pronounciation that I've ever heard. You realize that Linus is not German and SUSE Linux is, right? I bet all you've ever heard come out of his mouth is English spoken in a Finnish accent. You can cite him as a pronounciation authority for the word "Linux", but not for acronyms of German companies.

The problem with finding the "correct" pronounciation of an acronym from another language is that it is not a word in that language, and is in fact not a "word" at all. SUSE, in English, is going to be pronounced differently than in German, Finnish, and Japanese. It appears that SuSE reps themselves don't have a canonical answer.

Oh, and vagina-boy has no credibility in this discussion for the use of "usta" as some sort of bastardized illiterate patois for "used to"

I pronoounce it like the name of the writer Dr. Seuss.

I always called it SooZay. But I guess the write pronunciations is SooSa Yup that's what it is.

it is SooSa, so tells me a very good/close German friend.

it is most defianlty Sue-See.

If all else fails, you can always just call it Sushi.

Really, how is the pronunciation of a distro important? Don't we have more important issues in Linux?

This is one of the most important issues I've seen in the general forum. I'm 99.99% sure it is pronounced "Sue-suh"

"Sue - Cee" is clearly the way it should be pronounced

I used to pronounce it "SuhSeh" , but since about a year I pronounce it as "These coasters"......

I just say s-u-s-e.

ever red ab book tring to learn a language and it didn't use phonetic symbols?
soo (try think of american "nu") ser
comest closest in those books' way

My German mate says its pronounced 'sooza' if that helps

SU --> zoo
SE --> rhymes with pet, set,...

zoo-set is pretty close except for the 't' at the end.