Poll: How do YOU pronounce Escapist?

[Daystar Clarion]

But... there's only one way to pronounce it. Escape-ist. That's it.

I was thinking the same thing...

I didn't realise this was a topic of debate.

English, how does it work?

 

[Gitty101]

Es-Kay-Pist is how I pronounce it. Never really thought about it before.

 

[putowtin]

We don't complain when you southern lot talk. Maybe a few jeers about being posh, but apart from that we don't complain when you start adding extra 'r's that don't exist. I think it's just laziness, you know other cultures will adapt for you so you don't need to do anything. I hate southerners so much.

And that's the way it should be! *affects air of superiority* Oh, for the good old days of 1950's BBC announcements. Now, they spoke English! XD[footnote]Y'know, the irony is that I'm not even English![/footnote]

With a footnote like that the only thing I can say is....

 

[AngryMongoose]

Neither? I go with "Eh-Scay-Pist" ("Uh-Scay-Pist" depending on how bothered I can be to move my jaw -either way the "S" is attached to the second syllable not the first). Pretty sure that's how the word is pronounced?
I mean really? "Es-kay-pist"?

South-East Coast and Home Counties raised, and both my parents were English teachers at private schools so... pretty much how correct speech is defined.

"Ess-Kah-Pist" is just wrong...
Sounds more like someone who performs escapades.

 

[Ham Blitz]

I always thought of it (And have heard it said by some of the videos on this website) as the Ess-kay-pist, like the word "escape", then "ist". This website seems to be about games and movies, seen as forms of escapism or escape from reality, which is where I thought the name came from. Also, I always thought of Houdini as an escape artist.

Eh? Es-kah-pist is a thing? I, being from South UK, pronounce it Es-kay-pist although the K is closer to a g making it "Ehz-(k/g)ahy-pissed"

I can actually do you one better and provide a voice clip

http://vocaroo.com/i/s179DqTZHaog

and an old-ish thread I made where you can listen to some other posters pronounce it (there's a few posters dotted around saying it. Somewhere amongst all the Lovecraft reading, Poe reading, singing, questioning of my motives and rampant paranoia that is )

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.392848-Open-mic-night-What-do-you-sound-like

I know this sounds weird and I don't quite know why, but I like that voice. Sounds sort of classy.

 

[Kaymish]

i pronounce it the Es-KAY-pist i think you friend is right

 

[Charli]

Essss CAP ay... st.


Because.

Edit: FUCKIN ninjas. God.

 

[BarbaricGoose]

My friends at work who see me browsing ask if i've been on "The Rapist" recently, i love my friends sometimes.

The Es-Kay-Pist

Britoneion

The Rapist Magazine: for the discerning rapist.

OT: Es-kay-pist. As stated before, you don't "Es-kahp" reality, you "Es-kayp." Maybe with an accent it'd be es-kahp, but it's supposed to be es-kay-pist.

 

[Olas]

"Ess-Kah-Pist" is just wrong...
Sounds more like someone who performs escapades.

Ninjas. Damn.
Oh well, ya I never would imagine anyone not pronouncing it es-KAY-pissed. If my memory banks are accurate, Yahtzee, Bob, Jim, Graham and them all pronounce it that way. Though the other pronunciation does have a kinda sexy exotic vibe to it.

 

[Dimitriov]

This question comes up way too often. It's pronounced eh-SKAY-pist. That's not how I personally pronounce it, but rather it's the correct pronunciation. It isn't just the name of a website, it's a word.

 

[DementedSheep]

...it?s just escape with an ist on the end.
Do people pronounce escape as ess-kahp? : /

 

[el_kabong]

I pronounce it the correct way (es-kay-pist).

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/escapist

 

[game-lover]

I say es-cay-pist.

As in "escape" basically.

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

Es-cape-ist

Pronouncing it Escarpist would be like saying "Escarp!!!"

Do you escarp reality on the Escarpist?