The original name of the company was S.u.S.E. with the dots. "Software- und System-Entwicklung" (Software and system development)
Wow that's like naming your cleaning company "Cleaning Company"
About "Course of Theoretical Physics" by Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics
it is said (also quoted on the Wikipedia page):
"not a word of Landau and not a thought of Lifshitz".
Similarly, one could say that OpenAI is named this way because it's neither open nor intelligent.
OpenAI = Not Open
IBM = International Business Machines with NON international character encoding (EBCDIC).
Oracle = NOT what you want from a database nor from a CIA project ;)
... or naming your boring company "The Boring Company".
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.
And we Germans do turn the latter syllable into a schwa.