BS: Pisces. How to say it.

Subject: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: Gurney
Date: 15 Apr 11 - 05:04 PM

I might include the 'Pleasant and Delightful' parody in my repertoire, but it contains the word Pisces. I have heard three pronunciations, and don't know which to use. If YOU use it, which?

Pie-seas. Piss-keys. Piss-ease. (Any others?)
Heard all three on TV over the years.
Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: GUEST,John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Apr 11 - 05:05 PM

Pie seas.

Subject: RE: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: bobad
Date: 15 Apr 11 - 05:10 PM

btfsplk

Subject: RE: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: Will Fly
Date: 15 Apr 11 - 05:13 PM

Fish.

Subject: RE: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: bobad
Date: 15 Apr 11 - 05:16 PM

Ghoti

Subject: RE: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: Gurney
Date: 15 Apr 11 - 05:20 PM

bobad, you have a dirty dhoti.

Subject: RE: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Apr 11 - 05:53 PM

"btfsplk"

Is that Joe btfsplk?, or just a relative?

Subject: RE: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: josepp
Date: 15 Apr 11 - 06:13 PM

////Pie-seas. Piss-keys. Piss-ease. (Any others?)////

Any of those three is acceptable

Subject: RE: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Apr 11 - 07:30 PM

My mom was a PIE seas! Never heard ought of the others.

I suppose in old Latin, it would rightly be pee says.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Apr 11 - 07:41 PM

Here you go

Subject: RE: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: Gurney
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 01:07 AM

Thanks, Ed. That's sorted how Americans say it, anyway. And since the parody is American, so be it.
If you try the words from pisces down, you start to get the 'piss...' pronunciations coming in.

Good dictionary. Bookmarked it.

Subject: RE: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: open mike
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 03:14 AM

pi sieze

Subject: RE: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: Little Robyn
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 03:33 AM

You'll find piskies in Cornwall.
More here.

Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Pisces. How to say it.
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 09:22 AM

Those at a place where I once spent some time pronounced it "the evil ones" but I think it had something to do with a specific couple of them who worked there.

John