Poll: Do YOU know how to pronounce osu! ?

PlasticSmoothie

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PlasticSmoothie 2010-05-26T14:01:06+00:00

Depends.
In my head I read it as it would be read in Japanese, with the U being silent.
With friends I go "Oh-su" because if I didn't, they wouldn't know what I was talking about

Remco32

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Remco32 2010-05-26T18:09:40+00:00

awp wrote:
did the entire thread fail to reply with

Do YOU know how to spell osu! ?

I sure do now!

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Chacha17

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Chacha17 2010-06-02T19:08:04+00:00

lol i know that it's pronounced oss but bah oh-suh! sounds a lot better.

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Babble

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Babble 2010-06-07T22:45:25+00:00

Chacha17 wrote:
lol i know that it's pronounced oss but bah oh-suh! sounds a lot better.

Yeah, same. lol

rulingvenus

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rulingvenus 2010-06-09T20:18:08+00:00

i thought it was pronounced oh sue lol that sounds alot better, oh sue.....

pjiang621111

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pjiang621111 2010-06-09T23:09:37+00:00

I agree. I was saying "oh sue" until I paid attention to the "oss" that came out from the first Ouendan! game. Then I forgot all about the pronounciation until I watched peppy's vid.
After that I say "oss" to myself once in a while to remember the Japanese, but 95% of the time I will be saying "oh sue" anyway.

TaB

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TaB 2010-06-10T20:05:13+00:00

I heard how its spelled before.
I believe that the word means hello or something.

Gens

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Gens 2010-06-10T20:15:01+00:00

Doesn't it mean Go instead?

I know the original Ouendan title means "Go! Fight! Cheersquad!", so yeah.

RageTH

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RageTH 2010-06-21T18:37:00+00:00

I knew because I studied japanese.
I don't like saying Oss, so I say Oh soo

Ivan494

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Ivan494 2010-06-24T21:34:47+00:00

Oh soo, Same as above because i have played ouendan b4

Natteke

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Natteke 2010-06-24T21:54:49+00:00

I don't care, really

blacksymbian

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blacksymbian 2010-06-25T06:57:27+00:00

osu = Hoes Zoo

wow a zoo for hoes

Chacha17

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Chacha17 2010-06-26T02:09:59+00:00

oh sue me.

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Axel

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Axel 2010-07-06T07:39:37+00:00

so thats how u pronounce OSU! i used to say OH-SEW(OH-SU)

so its OS lol.

Championanwar

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Championanwar 2010-07-06T08:59:10+00:00

Ah man, it's not Oh-Sue? >:
Now I gotta get used to the real way to say it. xD

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second_wave

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second_wave 2010-07-06T09:50:58+00:00

I say "Osu"

"Ozzzz..." sounds gay =P

FurukawaPan

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FurukawaPan 2010-07-14T20:04:15+00:00

押忍！

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Numbbi

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Numbbi 2010-07-15T07:17:10+00:00

I had no idea that it sounds like that.

I always said it.. in my own way.

YuiiMugii

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YuiiMugii 2010-07-15T21:06:19+00:00

"Oh-su" just sounds better than "Oss".
Just like how "De-su" sounds better than "Des".

Anzo

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Anzo 2011-04-20T12:30:15+00:00

"OSuu...'!!"

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arne439

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arne439 2011-04-20T14:58:32+00:00

I call it OSS!.

Meaningless fact: "oss" is the Swedish word for "us" like in "They invited us" (Dom bjöd in oss) or "He killed us" (Han dödade oss).

Sleep Powder

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Sleep Powder 2011-04-20T15:03:34+00:00

o-sue

(osu is a japanese word i think... so using the actual term "osu" to explain how I pronounce it isn't helpful. In my case, I can read romaji so this isn't really an issue for me. I know what I'm doing...)

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Rantai 2011-04-20T15:49:51+00:00

oss-sue!

Screw proper pronunciation, I like mine XD

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Ikillforpies

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Ikillforpies 2011-04-20T18:59:35+00:00

oh-su
Sounds better that way xD

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SapphireGhost

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SapphireGhost 2011-04-20T19:21:46+00:00

Where's the "I know how you're supposed to say it but it sounds weird when I do so I just say it the wrong way since it sounds more normal." option?

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hinamizawan

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hinamizawan 2011-04-20T19:54:52+00:00

ósu

But everyone I know calls it: "ozu"

Corin

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Corin 2011-04-20T20:06:01+00:00

Ose

It's the correct way to pronounce it

As far as i remember anyways.

Vext_old

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Vext_old 2011-04-20T20:20:49+00:00

Yes, Ose, however you sound awfully weeaboo pronouncing it that way without the accent IRL and most people can't for that matter. For simplicity when talking to people I simply pronounce it Oh-soo, have a friend that calls it oos though.

wkLeon

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wkLeon 2011-04-20T20:24:59+00:00

I just pronounce it the way the tutorial does "o-sue", and it also goes with the url http://www.osu-me.com/ sounding like "Oh, sue me!"

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Sander-Don

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Sander-Don 2011-04-20T20:27:04+00:00

its pronounced oh-s

Vish024

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Vish024 2011-04-23T08:57:01+00:00

Kids at my school who introduced me to the game pronounced it "oh-s". So I heard it pronounced like that first time, that's how I've said it since before I first played the game. Also I believe in some parts of Japan, where the local Japanese contains slight variations, they would pronounce it as "os-oo". To be honest, there's really no right or wrong way of pronouncing it, unless the pronounciation is utterly nonsensical and does not correspond with the letters in the word itself.

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Maxer00

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Maxer00 2011-04-23T09:20:37+00:00

At first I pronounced it like it should be - 'oh-s' ,but then I watched Lucky star... fricken Kagami and her 'oh-su' wacked my pronouncement meter waaay off. And then I joined Osu!

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Deus ex Machina_old

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Deus ex Machina_old 2011-04-25T01:08:22+00:00

Since I watch too much anime, it was just natural to pronounce it oss, I diden't watch the video :3
Unfortunatly in danish it sounds like you are saying cheese instead, so I get a lot of comments on that XD
So sometimes I say osu just to make them shut up about the cheese XD

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Emilescute

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Emilescute 2011-05-01T15:39:18+00:00

I kinda pronuced it as Os since i tried Quendan.

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xRayne

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xRayne 2012-05-29T13:51:44+00:00

I say it as "o-su" Eh.
I have a friend that says it as "o-zu" haha :3

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