how do you pronounce the English word SCHISM?

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.