Kyuss

[Gary Teter]

What is the correct pronunciation of the name Kyuss?

[Polevoi]

Aramis wrote:

What is the correct pronunciation of the name Kyuss?

After the hard k say "eye-us" and you should have it.

[Tatterdemalion]

It's pronounced "we're all gonna die."

Really.

[Yamo]

I say "kie (like pie) us."

[Big Jake]

Hmmm. I've been saying "KH'yuss". KH like KHAAAAN!! and yuss like y'uss, the Texan plural of us. Like y'all... but y'uss.

Is it really Kie-uss? That really sounds weird to me now.

[Cardinal_Malik]

i've seen it written pronounced as "ki-oos" Ki like pie and oos like loose. I however say "Key-us"

[Rexx]

I'm sure some of you know of this but for those that don't:

Kyuss the heavy rock band

Good stuff if you like some of the heavy "stoner" vibes of Monster Magnet, even going back to the psychedelic of Hawkwind.

They suggest a pronounciation of "kia-uss". They credit the name coming from D&D even: "It is a character from Dungeons and Dragons. But we only used it because we thought it was a cool name."

Who could have guessed "Kyuss" would be so trendy?

"KIGH-us" is wikipedia's suggestion.

[Greyson]

Yamo wrote:

I say "kie (like pie) us."

I like this pronunciation, too. And that's how I and the players in my campaign pronounce it. There is already and "eye-ooze" (Iuz) in Greyhawk. I think the distinction is important to avoid a similar phoneme for K-eye-uss (Kyuss).

Happy gaming
Don Kenneth Brown

[Aberzombie]

If you ask me, its like that old tootsie-pop commercial with the owl. "How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie-roll center of a tootsie-pop?...The world may never know."

I would, personally, go with the whole k-eye-us, kie-us, kigh-us pronunciation. Since, however, we live in a reasonably free country, anyone can pronounce Kyuss almost anyway they want.

[Gold Katana]

Kh-yuss (soft U, like us; extra long S).

[Russell Jones]

I've always pronounced it like cube...KY-uhss. It could even be pronounced ky-OOS.

While we're pronouncing...I've always called Cyre "SIGH-er", while according to an article I've read it's pronounced "SEAR-ee".

Anyone else got a weird DnD pronunciation?

[Timault Azal-Darkwarren]

I've always pronounced it:

kh.yuss'

I've always been a fan of onomonopeia and the closer it sounds like "pus" the better. It seems to fit the whole "oozing-worm" motif.

[Craig Clark]

Rexx wrote:

I'm sure some of you know of this but for those that don't:

Kyuss the heavy rock band

Good stuff if you like some of the heavy "stoner" vibes of Monster Magnet, even going back to the psychedelic of Hawkwind.

They suggest a pronounciation of "kia-uss". They credit the name coming from D&D even: "It is a character from Dungeons and Dragons. But we only used it because we thought it was a cool name."

Who could have guessed "Kyuss" would be so trendy?

"KIGH-us" is wikipedia's suggestion.

A couple of them (Josh Hommes still) started up Queens of the Stone Age, a much better effort. You can't go wrong with Dave Grohl on drums.

I always pronounced it Kî-uss.

[Eleazar]

I've been pronouncing it "Kuh-yuss", or just "the worm guy" :)