How should word "C'tis" be pronounced?

[ano]

English is not my native language and I just don't know how "C'tis" should be pronounced correctly. There're several versions in our community and I would like to know which one is right.
Thanks in advance .

[Fantomen]

Imagine you´re a lizard, ssh´tissss...

The tone of voice should be shivering somewhere between seductive and repulsive.

[Caerun]

/smartass nitpicker mode on
It's spelled "C'tis." Pronounciation is a whole other subject.
/smartass nitpicker mode off

Seriously though, I'd always imagined the C at the start to be pronounced as a K. What with Celts and so on. Dunno why the connection's like that in my head but there it is. So it'd go something like "k'tees" by my reckoning.

Then again, I'm not a native anglophone either, so what do I know?

[Illuminated One]

I'd say Tsss'tisss

[llamabeast]

I'd definitely imagine it to be a hard C myself.

So, "ker-TISS", I guess.

[lch]

Originally Posted by Illuminated One

I'd say Tsss'tisss

+1

Lambent, sizzling, hissing, like a Cobra.

[ano]

Ooops!
I'm really surprised there's no consensus. I also always thought it is something like "Tsss'tisss" but man people say "K'tis". I wonder if anyone knows for sure .
p.s. Caerun Thanks for correction!

[WraithLord]

Originally Posted by lch

+1

Lambent, sizzling, hissing, like a Cobra.

+2

[llamabeast]

I don't understand, "C" is never pronounced as "Tsss"!

[Edi]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

I don't understand, "C" is never pronounced as "Tsss"!

Depends on your native language. In Slavic languages c is very often ts, whether a the beginning of a word of in the middle. In place names like Planica, for example, that's pronounced Planitsa, with a slight hiss to the s. And in English it can be k like in Celts and Celtic, but also s like in celebrate and celebrant (of the faith who appears in province x with a bunch of militia).

For me, I tend to read C at the beginning of a word as k because that's the way things work in Finnish. C'tis would be something like Kh'tiss and if you don't like the glottal stop, just go with Khetiss with the e nearly silent. Though the other way of saying it, Tsh'tiss or Tshi'tiss (again with the first i (or e if you prefer) nearly silent) also works.

Depend on the fact that since Dominions has different nations who presumably also have different languages of their own, you would probably find both variations represented...