Okay, so geas isn’t a word commonly spoken.

So, most people run into it via some branch of fantasy, be it d&d or books.

So, how did any of you guys pronounce it in your head before you looked it up?

Edit: ffs, should I say “so” again, or what? Never commente when brain dead, folks.

Like someone with a deep US Southern accent saying geese. Gee-uhs.

Are you my aunt? That’s exactly how she says geese. Her husband says geese as “gays” with a sibilant s rather than the hard s.

… how do you mean? S’s are sibilants in every variation I know if not silent like in French.

I’m three decades away from my last class, but I thought that the ess sound than an s makes is called a sibilant, where the z sound it makes isn’t.

Most people using the word “gays” will have it sound like gayz, or the word gaze. His is that sibilant s like in hissing

You make a good point about the voicing distinction that I was unsure of, so I looked it up. According to clearly the most authoritative source on the internet, [s] and [z] are both “hissing” sibilants.