This is driving me nuts.

I was wondering the same. My education wants it to be kick with an s in front of it, but crazy fantasy 'nunciations don't give 2 chunkies about how something should be pronounced.

Sick. Think scepter and sycophant.

Science, Scissors (edit from scum LOL), Scene

Y is a vowel. So is an "I"

K, Kick

Scyk = Sick

Science, Scum, Scene

Y is a vowel. So is an "I"

K, Kick

Scyk = Sick

i don't think "scum" works in this case

replace it with scissors

Psych?

Not sure, but I like it pronounced Psych (with the y having an i sound, and Sci as in Science), rather than Sc as in School (Skick).

But it could be Sceek. My way allows you annoy your opponent with psych puns.

Skik feels right to me, far more so than sik.

Skik feels right to me, far more so than sik.

to properly annunciate "Skik" it requires too much effort

where as "sick" rolls off the tongue

I've been jumping between Sick and Skick since I first saw it. Need to go back to Tatooine on SWTOR and find a mission giver where they actually say it, then we'll know for sure.

Ive been liking and saying it with a long i and pronouncing both the s and c, hence "sc eye k"...

Seek?

Sick. Think scepter and sycophant.

Neither of those words is even spelled with the same letter combination.

Scythe is, though, meaning my money is on the sike/psych pronunciation.

Sike, as in scythe.

I like 'sike' fighter but it's probably 'sick' fighter.

Skik

Its pronounced 'Psych' and heres why (from a primary school teachers - who regularly teaches spelling rules to children - point of view):

Sc - is capable of making 2 sounds. It makes separate s and c sounds when it is followed by another modifier consonant (school, scratch) or a short vowel (scum, scat). It makes a single s sound when followed by a long vowel (science, scene)

y - usually makes a long i [eye] sound, but there are enough exceptions to not make this a rule.

k - a k sound as the final sound of a word is always made by ck if it is following a short vowel (sick, click), and by just k if it is following a long vowel (took, fluke - k is final sound as bossy e is silent).

So if we backtrack, just a k on the end means it's a long i sound, meaning it's a single s sound.

so s-eye-k. - phsych.

where as "sick" rolls off the tongue

This made me laugh. I think it's time for bed.

Its pronounced 'Psych' and heres why (from a primary school teachers - who regularly teaches spelling rules to children - point of view):

Sc - is capable of making 2 sounds. It makes separate s and c sounds when it is followed by another modifier consonant (school, scratch) or a short vowel (scum, scat). It makes a single s sound when followed by a long vowel (science, scene)

y - usually makes a long i [eye] sound, but there are enough exceptions to not make this a rule.

k - a k sound as the final sound of a word is always made by ck if it is following a short vowel (sick, click), and by just k if it is following a long vowel (took, fluke - k is final sound as bossy e is silent).

So if we backtrack, just a k on the end means it's a long i sound, meaning it's a single s sound.

so s-eye-k. - phsych.

Yes, but I would say that just as scythe can be [s-eye-th] or [sky-th] this could be [s-kick]. The y could be making the short e sound like in pen or when or myth. I also like [s-kyk] that plainsman put above, if it has the long i sound.

"Shike" seems to fit better with a lot of the other Mandalorian pronunciations as seen in Republic Commando game and novels.

Edit: further info: A lot of Eastern European languages (which Man'doa seems to be kinda-sorta based in), the "sc" dipthong makes a "sh" sound, and "y" in Mandalortan makes a long "I" sound.

I'd say ask FFG but they don't pronounce Tantive correctly either.

Its pronounced 'Psych' and heres why (from a primary school teachers - who regularly teaches spelling rules to children - point of view):

Sc - is capable of making 2 sounds. It makes separate s and c sounds when it is followed by another modifier consonant (school, scratch) or a short vowel (scum, scat). It makes a single s sound when followed by a long vowel (science, scene)

y - usually makes a long i [eye] sound, but there are enough exceptions to not make this a rule.

k - a k sound as the final sound of a word is always made by ck if it is following a short vowel (sick, click), and by just k if it is following a long vowel (took, fluke - k is final sound as bossy e is silent).

So if we backtrack, just a k on the end means it's a long i sound, meaning it's a single s sound.

so s-eye-k. - phsych.

Yes, but I would say that just as scythe can be [s-eye-th] or [sky-th] this could be [s-kick]. The y could be making the short e sound like in pen or when or myth. I also like [s-kyk] that plainsman put above, if it has the long i sound.

Scythe can't be pronounced with a I sound. It is s-eye-th. Just like moth can't be something you open to put your food in.

in the end this all boils down to the issue of pronunciation where clearly nobody is right or wrong

hence the tomato (toe may toe) or tomato (toe ma toe) issue

First off, the long i sound is present in both [s-eye-th] and [s-kyk] pronunciations, and secondly I don't feel the need to argue the point due to fact that the author of the fiction the word is found in can pronounce it any way he/she wants and that is the correct pronunciation.

Sick. Think scepter and sycophant.

Neither of those words is even spelled with the same letter combination.

Scythe is, though, meaning my money is on the sike/psych pronunciation.

Sure they do, just not at the same time. Those were both individual examples of how those particular letter combinations work.

Its pronounced 'Psych' and heres why (from a primary school teachers - who regularly teaches spelling rules to children - point of view):

Sc - is capable of making 2 sounds. It makes separate s and c sounds when it is followed by another modifier consonant (school, scratch) or a short vowel (scum, scat). It makes a single s sound when followed by a long vowel (science, scene)

y - usually makes a long i [eye] sound, but there are enough exceptions to not make this a rule.

k - a k sound as the final sound of a word is always made by ck if it is following a short vowel (sick, click), and by just k if it is following a long vowel (took, fluke - k is final sound as bossy e is silent).

So if we backtrack, just a k on the end means it's a long i sound, meaning it's a single s sound.

so s-eye-k. - phsych.

You'll have to forgive my pedantry, but those credentials don't mean much coming from " a primary school teacher s ."

Psych and scythe have long Is only because of another vowel following afterwards (psych being pronounced differently because it's shorthand for longer words). It's most definitely sick.

http://homepage.smc.edu/reading_lab/basic_spelling_rules.htm

Feel free to keep discussing it, but I think the above link fairly well ends the argument.