how do you pronounce the English word SCHISM?

I've only ever heard 'skism'. In keeping with all of those other Ancient Greek words like 'chaos' where the χ (ha) becomes a k.

xxp (checks nearby 90s revision of Fowler's Modern English Usage)

Ah yes, "schedule" is that way round, Colonel Poo OTM. I think I theoretically knew that once but still always had the fear about it and then forgot the right way round.

Also re schism it says "The OED (1910) had only /'sɪz(ə)m/" (sizm, if my IPA doesn't come out) which is still preferred in church usage. Which I did not know, on either count.

skism still good to me, probably will stick with skedule in future now my tweedy ex-classicist former boss (much <3 to him) has retired, cz it was mainly him I felt self-conscious about language matters in front of. The main thing, though, would be to pick one and not get confused partway through.

In Ecclesiastical Latin, I assume it's pronounced 'shisma', much like the French 'schisme' (sounds like 'shism'). So the Anglican pronunciation is possibly sui generis, as is its wont.

Interesting and most appropriate that its neutral gender in Greek and Latin should have given rise to an East-West split among Romance languages: masculine in French, Spanish and Italian, feminine in Romanian.

Shism. I forget the meaning of the word and would have gone with skism if I could remember how ppl around me say the word but I can’t hear anyone say it in my mind.

it's not an english word; it's greek -- σχίσμα

I mean, σχίσμα is a Greek word; schism is an English word whose roots lie in Greece.

I've only ever heard 'skism'. In keeping with all of those other Ancient Greek words like 'chaos' where the χ (ha) becomes a k.

That was exactly what I first said yesterday upon learning the annoying history of this English word. Then I said, I'll make a poll.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Successful poll.

I learned this word from Anthrax

scheptical abt this

so is the difference that it's pronounced sism in the UK and skism in the US, or is it more random than that

No-one pronounces it sism and I know ILX is US dominated now but 33 to 1 seems unlikely.

The two sism-sayers I met that inspired this poll are Americans in their 60s.

According to one of them, if you ask Siri, Siri says sism.

'Siri, say sism'

Time to pass these findings on to the OED.

Whoa, "male from United States" says "sism" here: https://forvo.com/word/schism/#en . I honestly had no idea there was more than one pronunciation of this word.

'Female from United States' says both. Could it be a regional thing?

My informants are from the working-class northeast but I was guessing it may be generational.