How do you pronounce "Kyuss"?

[Menexenus]

Welcome to today's pointless poll topic!

For all you Age of Worms players and DMs, I'm curious how you say the name "Kyuss". When I say it, it has two syllables and rhymes with the word "pious". But it just occurred to me today that others might say it as one syllable (rhyming with "puss" - using the "y" as a consonant instead of a vowel). I imagine there are other possible pronunciations as well.

If you think you can describe it, let me know how you say it!

 

[werk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyuss_(Greyhawk)

 

[Menexenus]

Thanks for the quick link, Werk! I wonder where the author of this entry got his pronunciation. (Is it official? If so, what source did he/she use? Anybody know?)

 

[Beckett]

James Jacobs posted a pronunciation on one of the threads over on Paizo's AOW board. Looks like the wiki page agrees with him.

 

[Henry]

I say "Kyuss" (pious), but I can see "high-moose", myself, especially because "Gaius" is also pronounced similarly to "pious". "Kye-oose."

 

[demiurge1138]

I'm one of those "rhymes with cuss" people. Rare, I know. Incorrect by the official pronounciation. But it's short, snappy, and with some of my players I'd have to worry about Eberron's King Kaius (which I pronounce rhyming with pious).

Demiurge out.

 

[Presto2112]

I've always pronounced is like rhyming with "puss" or "wuss". it always made it mentally easier to deal with a Spawn of Rhymes With Wuss.

 

[davidschwartznz]

I voted 1 syllable, but really 1-1/2. I pronounce the 'ky' like the 'kj' in Kjeldor. (Maybe refernecing another fictional name isn't the best way to go?)

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I pronounce it like Presto - the "Y" is a consonant and the "uss" rhymes with "wuss".

That probably sounds a little different than what Americans are imagining, because "wuss" in an Australian accent is a little deeper or more guttural than in an American accent. The "u" is similar to the "oo" in "wool".

 

[the Jester]

1.5 syllables here, too...

Say the words "key us" together really fast, but shorten the "key" until its barely a syllable of its own and extend the sibbilance in "us" and you've pretty well got it.