Help me pronounce. plz

[Tyxis]

A friend of mine pronounced my name in an odd fashion. He claimed he pronounced it properly according to the rules of English.
Made me curious. How do you pronounce Tyxis?

[TheImmortalLordAtlas]

ticks-iss is what i think

[belfpala]

He claimed he pronounced it properly according to the rules of English.

There are rules of pronunciation in English? Strange.

It's either ticks-iss, tike-siss, or perhaps even tie-kiss

[vizzle]

English is a language where people pronounce tomayto and tomahto, and both are correct. Especially for names, there isn't really a right or wrong, as long as you're saying some variation of how the letters should sound.

Tike-sis is how I would say it, but Ticks-sis is correct too.

[hulkgor]

tai-sis

10char

[TheImmortalLordAtlas]

tai-sis

10char

Why are you disregarding the "x"?

[Maldread]

^..............10chars @ 'ticks-iss'

how is it supposed to be pronounced?

[Caiada]

Ticks-iss. I think that's how x works in that situation, but honestly, I'm just guessing. I'm much better with the written word.

[Skelington]

Taick- sis

Why? It sounds cooler.

[TheImmortalLordAtlas]

Ticks-iss. I think that's how x works in that situation, but honestly, I'm just guessing. I'm much better with the written word.

Exactly my thinking. Tyx (ticks) like Styx (sticks) + iss.

[Baphomette]

"t_hIk.s@s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-sampa)

[Biggayshammy]

im going to call you Thundercat

[belfpala]

Exactly my thinking. Tyx (ticks) like Styx (sticks) + iss.

My question wasn't how the x works, but how the y works. Styx, pronounced sticks, is a good example. But there are equally valid counterexamples in Sty, Sky, Psy(-add suffix of choice), etc.

[Baphomette]

My question wasn't how the x works, but how the y works. Styx, pronounced sticks, is a good example. But there are equally valid counterexamples in Sty, Sky, Psy(-add suffix of choice), etc.

Vowels are short in syllables with a coda (final consonant/s). Tysis (ty-sis) would be 'tie' (long i), but Tyxis (tik-sis) is 'tick' (short i).

Yes, English does have rules. The problem is that we haven't had a big spelling reform in the last few hundred years and the language has, uh, changed a bit in that time >_> But the system still works (more or less).

[Yuuki Asuna]

'Tie' 'Zis'

[belfpala]

Vowels are short in syllables with a coda (final consonant/s). Tysis (ty-sis) would be 'tie' (long i), but Tyxis (tik-sis) is 'tick' (short i).

Yes, English does have rules. The problem is that we haven't had a big spelling reform in the last few hundred years and the language has, uh, changed a bit in that time >_> But the system still works (more or less).

Psychology. How do I know if the first syllable ends in a consonant or not? It's really the same question asked by the OP. Sigh-kol o-gee (correct) seems just as valid as Sick-ol-o-gee.

Whoever invented English was insane. I'm looking at you, all of Europe.

[stuck4cash]

Why are you disregarding the "x"?

He's not, the x is like an s sound... (xylophone).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X#Usage

There's a bit under English that makes me think it's Ticks-iss.

[LiiLoSNK]

Like a russian person saying Texas.

Tyek-sus

[hulkgor]

Why are you disregarding the "x"?

As a poster already said, i didn't. The 'x' reads more like an 'sss', so Tyxis is like "Tai-ssis".

[starlord]

"alphabet"