This is a really interesting thread. Like LSLGuy, I’m having a hard time thinking of any words with “cc” in the middle that are pronounced “ss”. But, flaccid is still “flassid” to me for some reason.
My wife is a physician, and so I imagine she’s heard and used the word flaccid quite a bit more often in her professional life than I have. She says she’s never heard it any way other than “flassid”.
I have searched without success. 
That’s a cool site. Thanks! I also found a word list someone put up, and just searched with my browser’s search function. Looking there reminded me of all the “cc” words we pronounce with a “k”, like occur and accord, and the loan words we (or at least I) pronounce with a “ch”, like cappuccino. But I didn’t find any other “cc” words I pronounce as “ss”… Except maybe succinct. I don’t quite say “suck sinct”, but not quite “sussinct” either. I sort of go “suh <little stop> sinct”.
Yes, I learned in high school that it was supposed to be “flaksid.”
But it is one of those words like “forte”. Once you know the allegedly correct pronunciation you don’t want to say it “wrong.” But depending on your audience you don’t want to be mistaken for someone either ignorant or pretentious.
In other news, it was only a couple of weeks ago that I found out that “mannequin” is not pronounced “man-eh-kwin”.
Sorry, Olive, I’ve gone flaksid. How embarraskin!.
To me, that’s the same as “sussinct” with the accent on the second syllable.
But I’ll be damned. I’ve always pronounced “accede” as “aseed,” but apparently it’s “uhk-seed.”
I used to pronounce it “flakkid”, not “flassid” or “flaksid”. In other words, not only was I mispronouncing the word, but I was also mispronouncing it badly. :eek:
During the fallout from Jeremy Clarkson’s recent fracas, I heard the word fracas pronounce frah-ca, frak-as and frey-cus (American?) …during the one news report.
Nope. Always “flassid” when I’ve heard it (which, admittedly, is not often).
Don’t brag.
Well, then how the hell do I pronounce “Flaxseed”?
Carefully. Very carefully.
Yes: me.
I can think of only once that I heard it pronounced flassid and I knew immediately that was wrong. It seems to be an invariable rule in English that CC is pronounced CS or X. And it is a technical term in one part of mathematics (sheaf cohomology).
I used to say fort-ay, but then I realized it is a French, not Italian, word and pronounced fort.
And the “correct” pronunciation of Germany is “Deutschland”. But I’m not a Marathi separatist intend on driving the Turks out of Berlin, so I’ll stick with “Germany”.
So do you also pronounce Paris as “Pa-ree”?
I’ve heard fassid on TV, and that’s the point where I assume it’s valid.
Without the word “gay” before it, anyway?
I’ve never ever heard the “correct” pronunciation, myself.
