Pronouncing Prusa!
I find it interesting that Joe often pronounces his name and his company on YouTube with a soft S and not the Czech š that is in his name "Josef Průša".
Yet in many of the YouTube videos we hear the traditional SH sound "Proo-Sha" in both referring to Joe formally or to Prusa Research by the "Happy Printing" voiceover guy.
I've always used the Czech Alphbet pronunciation... which is correct?
RE: Pronouncing Prusa!
Haha I think this was discussed not long ago on Discord. Excuse blatant copy-paste from my 2 cents:
In Slavic languages, in this case Czech and Slovak, we use "soft" form of some consonants S, C, T, Z, L (R in Czech too). They are written with diacritic sign (a little chevron sign above those like Š, Č, Ť, Ž and pronounced a bit differently:
Š sounds like SH as in show
Č sounds like TCH as in Tchajkovskij
Ž sounds like ...? Like you pronounce Xiaomi or Beijing
I am not sure I am able to explain how to pronounce Ť, Ř and Ľ, sorry 😆
Then we use another diacritic sign above vowels, that makes it pronounce longer. It's written like apostrophe sign above the letter, or in case of Czech language, a little circle above U.
Since our diacritics is confusing to people speaking other languages (not to mention hard to write on standard US keyboard), it gets simplified and written without diacritics, which makes them pronounced differently. We use it very often when chatting online and speaking with foreigners, to make it easier for them to write our names.
So Průša is pronounced like "Prusha" with U a bit longer (accented). Or "Proosha" if you want more similar pronunciation.