How do you pronounce Aspis?

[Matthew Morris]

Just curious, since it became a running joke over the weekend*.

Is it pronounced like 'donkey urine', or 'Ace-pis' or Asp-is?

*

Spoiler:

Venture captain kept saying it like donkey urine, then when they rescue the guy he introduces himself as being Kafar agent of the 'ace-pis'.

PC: It's not pronounced 'donkey urine'?
Me: Nope.
PC: But you kept saying donkey urine.
Me: No, the venture captain did. She's biased.

[Evil Lincoln]

My freedom loving Andoran gnome explorer chooses to emphasize the vulgar. With his Connery accent, it ends up more like "ash pish" though.

[Orthos]

Not knowing what it is, my first estimate was "Az-pis", so that it kind of sounds like "lapis (lazuli)".

[Caepio Alazario]

I'm of the "donkey urine" school. The Aspis Consortium has a bit of snake motif going on, but saying Asp-is requires one to cut the "p" very short just to fit in the "is." In fact, I fact myself saying "Asp-hiss" just in an effort to make it sound like one word.

Asp-is may seem thematically correct, but it's a beast to pronounce. Go with "donkey urine."

[Chris Marsh]

Aspis is the generic Greek word for shield. That word is pronounced AHS-pis

[Matthew Morris]

I'm leaning more to Ace-pis than donkey urine.

For those of you who remember Keeping up Appearances, "It's Bouquet, not Bucket!" :-)

[Troubled_child]

Matthew Morris wrote:

For those of you who remember Keeping up Appearances, "It's Bouquet, not Bucket!" :-)

That just made my day.

[Orthos]

Troubled_child wrote:

Matthew Morris wrote:

For those of you who remember Keeping up Appearances, "It's Bouquet, not Bucket!" :-)

That just made my day.

Seconded!

[Louis Lyons]

I pronounce it so that it sounds like "auspice."

[Abciximab]

We have always made it rhyme with A**Kiss.

We hate those guys.

[Astral Wanderer]

I don't know how they pronounce it at Paizo, but Vipera Aspis is latin.
I wouldn't know how to write it, and dunno if the latin of Google-Translator pronounces it right, I have no audio at present, but I'll check.

[GeraintElberion]

Well, 'aspic' is pronounced AS-pik... so a word with one minor letter of difference is, for me, AS-pis

But then, I didn't notice the toilet-ensemble until this thread.

[Astral Wanderer]

I checked. The latin (and to my surprise, also the english) pronounce in the Google-Translator does it right.

[The Mysterious Stranger]

Asp-is. I emphasize the asp.

[Matthew Morris]

I think I'm going to keep the actual members saying Ace-pis, and use 'donkey urine' as a Pathfinder injoke. :-)

[Brox RedGloves]

I always called it Ap- sis (much the same way Brett Favre's name is pronounced Farv), but then, I'm a half-orc rogue so whadayaexpect? :D