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Yeah but do they say "ess oo ess ee" or "suess"?


Soo-seh. Like the women‘s name.


Er... there is no woman's name that sounds like that.

In English, it's "SOO-zuh" or "SOO-se" if the speaker isn't native and doesn't turn final vowel sounds into schwa like most natives tend to.

In German, it's "ZOO-ze"

/ˈsuːzə/

It is not Susie, or Suzy, or Sooz, or anything like that, and that pronunciation tends to annoy the company. Souce: me; I worked there for 4 years. The company has Youtube videos on how to pronounce it, and even a song making fun of people getting it wrong.

Think of the American march composer John Philip Sousa. Like that. As in the musical instrument the sousaphone.


I‘m German, I know the pronunciation, thank you very much!

And we Germans do turn the latter syllable into a schwa.


:-D


"soo zuh"




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