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Pronunciation-- Osu!

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Is there something wrong with people pronouncing osu! with two syllables???

Yes
29
13.36%
No
83
38.25%
I don't care
105
48.39%
Total votes: 217
Topic Starter
miri_tan
LET'S SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL
iGPLTV
Literally every source I have found outside of this game doesn't pronounce it "oh-su", or "oss", but more like "oss-uu". This is VERY fucking weird.
Aiseca
I just say it as oh-sue, I don't really bother the technicality.
clay53

Aiseca wrote:

I just say it as oh-sue, I don't really bother the technicality.

That's how I pronounce it.
[-Kazu-]

Aiseca wrote:

I just say it as oh-sue, I don't really bother the technicality.
yeah same
SepelaThons
Welcome to "oss". I personally say "oss" but my friends say "oh-sue".
sonin_old_1
I pronounce it like the guy says when you run the game .-.
Cynplytholowazy
Just pronounce osu! as o - s - u

EZ
johnmedina999

-GN Junior wrote:

Just pronounce osu! as o - s - u

EZ
But then that means something different...

Tad Fibonacci

johnmedina999 wrote:

-GN Junior wrote:

Just pronounce osu! as o - s - u

EZ
But then that means something different...

This has to be trolling.
keremaru
If the audio when you get on the game pronounces it as "oh-ssss", and the developer put the file into the game himself, then it's obviously "oh-ssss".

Anyone who says "oh-suu" is weird, or trying to become a weeb with an English accent.
levesterz
Ossy
Achromalia
if anyone's trying to say "osu!" as in "oscillate" then I'm prepared to oscillate between not my two fingers, but my two fists, into their face--



...less, suppressed shame, and tell them it's okay to pronounce osu! correctly, and then pull my metaphorical fists out for them to consider their vile deed...
Westonini
I know it's supposed to be "ohss" but I really just don't care all that much. Neither do any of my friends. We've also just been saying it like that for so long that I sometimes forget it's incorrect.

Seems like most tend to not care either since the survey has, as of now, 24 people who chose that option.
Aiseca
AAss
Sosteneshion
ösy
DeletedUser_13957006
i say it like "o-zu"
Carmlillball
'Osu' has a 'u', therefore there's a 'u' sound.
You can pronounce the 'u' just how you want, but for the love of God please don't just drop it out of the word.
Almost as bad as the people who pronounce 'scones' as 'scons'. There's clealy a 'e' there! Why are you just dropping letters out just because you can't be bothered to pronounce them?!
Miyu Okamoto

Aiseca wrote:

I just say it as oh-sue, I don't really bother the technicality.


Me too, even though the game does pronounce how it's meant to be said on start up, whoops (I just forget as I've always thought of it as oh-sue)
Captain Campion

miri_tan wrote:

LET'S SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL



If you Say "oh-sue", You




Are a brainlet


and a little soy bou, making the name sound so gay
Corne2Plum3
I say "os-sue" because in French the good pronouncing of osu is a 🦴
Nuuskamuikkunen
Although I know that the "official" pronunciation is[ɔs], I say ['o̞su] 99% of the time.

If we take in count the japanese pronunciation, it must sound like [o̞sɯ̥ᵝ]
SamStarfish2013
Screw peppy. All my homies say oh-sue.
Jonarwhal
welcome to a$$
-Foxee-
my friends call "os-su" and "osh"
ClevelandsMyBro
my uncle calls it asu

yea i'm defo finna get silenced for this
Phantonym
Oss, but my friends say Ousue
Panic Mode
i alternate oss and oh-sue
sadave
i single tap ow su
catzlucky
i pronounce it as ows.
Baguette2Pain
French people be like: ozu
Zelzatter Zero

Carmlillball wrote:

'Osu' has a 'u', therefore there's a 'u' sound.
that's just like saying we should include the 'h' sound when we pronounce 'hour'-

Most Japanese tend to spell 'su' as an 's' sound (です is the most common example, where you can hear ppl say 'des' more than 'desu'). So yes 'ohs' is the more correct way to pronounce the name.
Arctos Sagittario

Zelzatter Zero wrote:

Carmlillball wrote:

'Osu' has a 'u', therefore there's a 'u' sound.
that's just like saying we should include the 'h' sound when we pronounce 'hour'-

Most Japanese tend to spell 'su' as an 's' sound (です is the most common example, where you can hear ppl say 'des' more than 'desu'). So yes 'ohs' is the more correct way to pronounce the name.
Can partly confirm. Vowel u in Japanese is very likely to be pronounced as an extension of the consonant before it, like tsu sounds more like tsss with a tone attached than actual tsu. Same applies to the other consonants.

However, end words like です・ます (desu/masu) are not ideal examples because natives tend to omit the long tone coming after. Words like すごい(sugoi) would be better examples of “extended consonant with a tone” thing.

So initially, osu is to be pronounced like osss, with a tone. There should be no problem for non-Japanese speakers to just pronounce as it spells.
Nuuskamuikkunen
Also worth nothing that the su/shi/tsu being pronounced as s/sh/ts does not occur in all Japanese dialects, while in Kanto (which includes the standard Tokyo dialect used in media) and Kyushuu is something common, people from Kansai and other zones might not reduce the su/shi/tsu sounds.
McEndu
O! SHIT! UNINSTALL!
Shururearisumu
Oss Supremacy, osssSSSSsss
catzlucky
i think the u in osu is [u] but unrounded
redleader20056
i have seen 0 people pronounce it oss
KeikiEnjoyer

levesterz wrote:

Ossy
I'm going to personally go to your house and misplace the furniture so that you will stub your toe
Sathryn
I say it like oh-soo
Sathryn

redleader20056 wrote:

i have seen 0 people pronounce it oss
what about the tutorial man?
NekoTowel
I say it the way when the game opens up and go "WELCOME TO OSU", so 1 syllable I guess: os
Manishh
I call it ooo suuu
Aireunaeus
nominomu
my friend used to pronounce it 'o-shoo'
179bpm
sometimes i’ll say oss sometimes oss-ew sometimes oss-u (u is slightly silent)
guy1231
geezay
anaxii

GFTBOfficial wrote:

geezay
hoo-nesty
sametdze
because of my accent, i pronounce it like the way the guy in the game says "welcome to osu" but then i had an extra "ooh" and the end. so it's basically oss-ooh
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