Poll: Pronouncing 'The Escapist'

[Jedamethis]

The 'Scapist. Though I rarely say it out loud...

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Is he mocking Dory from Finding Nemo? Es-Cah-Pay?

Maybe he is doing something like I do with Chocobo... I hate the correct pronounciation of that, and have always pronounced it 'Cocoa-bo' in protest!! Its something that me and my sister have always done, as we thought it made them sound grander, and less like a piss take!
Unfortunately that also means I don't really like the parts of the series that have voiceovers... I don't like hearing the word any other way!!

 

[Jadak]

The Es-Cape-Pissed

That is how I pronounce it for you.

Which is wrong, there's no second 'p' sound after the cape....

 

[dedem1315]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVPqaVlj0a0

 

[lacktheknack]

Whoops, I accidentally the wrong button. I say "Escape - ist".

 

[Zen Toombs]

....The. Escape. Ist. There's another way to say that? asks Toombs incredulously.

EDIT: I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT FINDING NEMO! [bolts off to watch it]

:3 I love Dory....

 

[DanielBrown]

Na-za-thist

No, but what the hell? Escape-ist.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Throat Wobbler Mangrove - just as it's spelt.

 

[Crazy]

The Es-Cape-Pissed

That is how I pronounce it for you.

Which is wrong, there's no second 'p' sound after the cape....

No, you're wrong. There will always be a silent p. Always.

 

[Erana]

The 'Scapist. Though I rarely say it out loud...

Same here. The 'Scapist is the 'Scapist. "Skay-Pist."

 

[Section Crow]

ih-skey-pizt

that's how you pronounce the word and being the smart people they are, the creators pronounce it like that

 

[octafish]

Your friend puts the em-PHA-sis on the wrong sy-LLA-ble.

 

[TheGreatKlaid]

Maybe he is doing something like I do with Chocobo... I hate the correct pronounciation of that, and have always pronounced it 'Cocoa-bo' in protest!! Its something that me and my sister have always done, as we thought it made them sound grander, and less like a piss take!
Unfortunately that also means I don't really like the parts of the series that have voiceovers... I don't like hearing the word any other way!!

You know until I played X that was one I changed often. Chalk-ko-bo was my way of pronounincing it. Of course the l is silent... Teefa or Tiffa? The one that me and my friend still can't seem to agree on is Ocarina. Aw-ka-ree-na(me) or Oh-keer-ra-na(him).

 

[Kapol]

S-K-Pissed. That' how I pronounce it. I'm surprised people prounounce it any other way to be honest. It seems pretty straight-forward. Escape with ist on the end. But oh well.

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

As in Es-Cah-Pist or Es-Cay-pist.

Because it's really an emphasis thing there. But Escape-ist is correct.

It's not as bad as a girl I know who called Rune Scape "Run Escape" when we were like 13.

My reaction included a stunned silence and laughing.

To be fair, most people want to do that after playing about a minute of it.

OT: Es-cay-pist. Not much simpler than that, I'm afraid. Though I did have a friend who pronounced it "E Escapist" because of the stylized E in the logo.

 

[zefiewings]

The truth of the matter is that I often say "zero punctuation" rather than the escapist, simply because it was the first show that brought me here, though it's no longer the only show I watch here. I even usually google "zero punctuation" even when I plan to watch loading ready run or something else.

When I actually say the escapist I do obviously say escape-ist

 

[Jadak]

The Es-Cape-Pissed

That is how I pronounce it for you.

Which is wrong, there's no second 'p' sound after the cape....

No, you're wrong. There will always be a silent p. Always.

But... If it's silent then it still shouldn't be in the written pronunciation of the word...

 

[Daystar Clarion]

How is this even a thing?

I swear, kids these days...

How to pronounce the 'escapist', seriously?

I just...

I can't...

If anyone needs me, I'll be in The Angry Dome.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Maybe he is doing something like I do with Chocobo... I hate the correct pronounciation of that, and have always pronounced it 'Cocoa-bo' in protest!! Its something that me and my sister have always done, as we thought it made them sound grander, and less like a piss take!
Unfortunately that also means I don't really like the parts of the series that have voiceovers... I don't like hearing the word any other way!!

You know until I played X that was one I changed often. Chalk-ko-bo was my way of pronounincing it. Of course the l is silent... Teefa or Tiffa? The one that me and my friend still can't seem to agree on is Ocarina. Aw-ka-ree-na(me) or Oh-keer-ra-na(him).

I'm a Teefa man myself... and I'm with you on the Ocarina front, but more of a sharp O sound (as in o-range) than an aw!

Pronunciation is a word that is very often pronounced with a 'noun' sound instead of 'nun'!

It's pro-nun-see-aish-on, but because pro-noun-ce has the 'noun' in it then people automatically put it into pronunciation too!

 

[Formica Archonis]

I've always pronounced it 'The Escape-ist.'
But my friend today pronounced it 'The Es-Ca-Pist'

He's pronouncing it like it's related to "escapade" instead of "escape". Merriam-Webster [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/escapist] to the rescue!

Or, for the lazy, have some WAV files: Escapade. [http://media.merriam-webster.com/soundc11/e/escapi02]

Tell your friend that "escapade" is a completely different word whose only relation to "escapist" is that they're doublets. They come from the same original word but took different paths to get here. They start as the Late Latin "cappa", meaning "hooded cloak", from which we also get "cape" and "cap" (but not "caper"). "Escape" and "escapist" come by way Old French. "Escapade" is via Spanish. It's why they sound different.