How is Siskia pronounced?

[Kappa]

Okay, so I've either been called bitch OR Siskia since I was born.

freddie insists it's pronounced She-shkee-ya, but I was born with the damn name and I've always heard it pronounced as Sees-kee-ya. Based on "Siskia" just written, what do you guys think it's pronounced as? Because he's Slavic, as well I am, and he insists Slavs name my name like that... but I have ALWAYS been called like I am saying I am...

I know it's an idiotic question but he's managed to confuse me about my own name.

[Tom Violence]

Chalk up one vote for Sees-key-ya.

[Lцfberg]

Make that two.

[parrish122]

Well, *I* have been pronouncing it in my head the way you do. The funny thing is I've been meaning to ask you how you pronounced it.

And honestly, with names you can pronounce them any way you want.

It's funny, I've had people argue with me about how to say my name was well. They say it's supposed to be said like "Free-da". I say it's "Fred-da". In fact, my name used to be spelled with just one d, and pronounced as "Fred-ah". But *Nobody* said it right, so my parents changed my name when I was a kid, adding the d.

Not that it helped.

Parrish

[Kappa]

parrish122, but Free-da would sound like Frida (as in Frida Kahlo). You're Fredda... LOL

[Bitty2002]

Well, you can do the whole Yulia vs Yulya thing! hehe Seeskeeya or Seeskya (how I have been saying it in my mind).

[spyretto]

Siskia? Where did you get that from? There's the Greek "Sikia" but I think it's more about gay guys..although it could be for girls too.
"siskia" and "sikia", hehe
I thought the word was "sterva" actually ( from Lilja 4-ever, )
Сука ( where does the stress go? to the y or the a? )

[forre]

darje, Don't kill me but for a Russian ear both She-shkee-ya and Sees-kee-ya sound confusing. It always happens when different languages meet somewhere. Anyway if I saw it on a paper and would try to pronounce it I'd say Sees-kee-ya. Definitely.

Hey, and I'm slavic too.

[crni]

i really don't know how freddie got that impression...

here, we'd also say Sees-kee-ya...

[Lцfberg]

Here we donґt use the word at all in matter of fact.
(Sorry for bringing this up, Iґm just so gdm fckng bored).

[QueenBee]

*Is slavic* YAY... I just pronounce it "Siskja" or how to say..

[Kappa]

queenbee, you get my drift!! LOL. Yes, Siskja is more like it. Maybe that makes more sense for forre? Does it?

spyretto, I think my dad took Saskia (which for all I know is a Slavic name) and just replaced the a. ^_^

[QueenBee]

darje, *does cheerleading dance* go me, go me, go me! Yeah, it's a unique and cool name you have there Mine is boring, and SWEDISH. *slaps forehead*

[Kappa]

Not to mention your name is ALSO my dad's wife name, so I don't hold special sympathy at it... but the person behind it cooooooolies. LOL

[freddie]

You people are all crazy. Those S leters MUST be pronounced like sh- or my name isn't Freddie.

And you people call yourself slavic.

[forre]

darje, There are Siskia Mountains and another region called by this name.

Also contains an early description of the Siskiyou mountains. The author and his wife, as part of a group of emigrants, traveled through the "Siskia" [Siskiyous] in 1846. The author's comments indicate that the origin of the name was unknown to them: "On the following morning we commenced ascending a mountain usually known as the Siskia Mountains, I know not why it is so called. It was very high and steep, and the ascent was exceedingly difficult" (Vol. 1, p. 197). From Thornton's description it is apparent that "Siskia" was a name used by Jesse Applegate: "All that we knew of the mountain, was vague and uncertain. Applegate had mentioned it by name, indeed, and had spoken of the ascent as being short and easy. But this--like almost everything he had said of the road--we learned, by sad and painful experience, to be untrue" (Vol. 1, p. 198).

Besides, this name is used oftener by Germans than any other nation. There's a version Saskia too, more frequently used.

Just ask your dad where he did get the idea from.

[dare2dream28]

I've always pronounced in my head as "Sis-key-ah" Like Sis as in sister.

[freddie]

I change my opinion to sheesh-kee-ya.

The main idea of my theses was that -s should be -sh, nothing else.

[forre]

freddie, Doesn't Siskia lie by Sisak, ex. Yugoslavia?

[Kappa]

forre, excuse moi the very blunt bluntness... but what? O_o