To all you linguists out there

[kuulani]

How do you pronounce "Pszyck"?

I was driving to the volcano one day, and noticed this road, Pszyck Road. What the hell are we doing with a Pszyck Road in Hawaii? I wonder who this person was to deserve a road?

 

[PT]

I'd pronounce it like Psych. Maybe Psycho?

 

[ris]

fizik?

 

[nalani]

Maybe it's the name of the first whitey to be sacrificed to Tutu Pele

 

[kuulani]

Using my Hawaiian language background, I would pronounce every letter, since we don't have "silent" letters.

pss-zuh-eye-ck

 

[Leslie]

(silent p) Pzick is what I'd say...

 

[ris]

probly sacrificed for bad pronunciation

 

[Psycho]

Psycho Road sounds nice

 

[Luis G]

i'd say it just like "sick"

 

[Gato_Solo]

fizik?

Ris' answer sounds closest to me...The area I grew up in had more foreign-sounding names than English-sounding names. Quite possibly a Balkan name...

 

[kuulani]

(silent p) Pzick is what I'd say...

so would that be ...

pzick, rhymes with sick OR
pzick, rhymes with like?

 

[unclehobart]

that word doesnt even appear in google.

 

[Shadowfax]

pjiëhzik

 

[unclehobart]

It all depends upon the root language. I ran it through Polish, Czech , Russian, German, hungarian, romanian dictionaries. Its not out there as a regular word. It must simply be a family name. It could be: fizz ick, pfizz ik, sizz ik, skizz ik, pizz ike, fizz ike, sizz ike... ick.

 

[Leslie]

(silent p) Pzick is what I'd say...

so would that be ...

pzick, rhymes with sick OR
pzick, rhymes with like?

umm...more like sick...

 

[kuulani]

pjiëhzik

umm ... shadow, dear, you realize that now you've added more consonants to an already confusing word

 

[ris]

its ok, welsh makes up for it with an abundance of consonants...

 

[Jon]

its ok, welsh makes up for it with an abundance of consonants...

Indeed it does... Bore da, allai i gael tri pwys o moron.



Jon

 

[halamikage]

I'd pronounce it like Psych. Maybe Psycho?

PT had it right. I knew a girl from high school with that last name, she pronounced it like Psycho, minus the "o".

 

[Gato_Solo]

its ok, welsh makes up for it with an abundance of consonants...

Indeed it does... Bore da, allai i gael tri pwys o moron.



Jon

Just who you callin' a moron, limey...