It's pronounced EE-RIS.

[Discord]

She needs those boots for ass kicking.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Hey now, dress + boots can be very hot.

In Kentucky.   

[Jasper]

Dress and boots is SEX.

Scotsmen in kilts know this to be true.

[hooplala]

The day an ancient Greek shows up at my door is the day I will put some stock in how an ancient word is meant to be pronounced, until then I will continue to pronounce Eris as 'nixon's festering corpse'.

[LMNO]

Hoops, I believe, is riding the correct motorcycle:

[hooplala]

Boffo!

[Mourning Star]

I was surfing an astrology article about the new dwarf planet Eris somewhere @ www.karmaastrology.com ::headshots several zodiac killers before they can even think about sporking up teh stars:: and found out that Eris is pronounced "EE-RIS".
And all this time I was pronouncing it "ARSE"

You're both wrong.

It's pronounced the same as "Heiress".

Yep.  Eris <---> Paris Hilton.

You heard it here first.

as per RAW

it's pronounced "Air Reese"

or something...

~Angel
Likes it RAWWWWWWWWW

[bubz_the_troll]

Eris is pronounced Discord.  Or Quonk if it's partly cloudy and 72 degrees.

[Jasper]

It's actually pronounced by typing it.  Like people actually TALK about this publicly.

[Discord]

I was surfing an astrology article about the new dwarf planet Eris somewhere @ www.karmaastrology.com ::headshots several zodiac killers before they can even think about sporking up teh stars:: and found out that Eris is pronounced "EE-RIS".
And all this time I was pronouncing it "ARSE"

You're both wrong.

It's pronounced the same as "Heiress".

Yep.  Eris <---> Paris Hilton.

You heard it here first.

as per RAW

it's pronounced "Air Reese"

or something...

~Angel
Likes it RAWWWWWWWWW

Thats how we pronounce it in german.
And we never had the discussion how to....

morons 

[LMNO]

It's actually pronounced by typing it.  Like people actually TALK about this publicly.

[Bogus Magus]

You see the problems you get into if you don't use E-Prime!

You can't meaningfully say "it is pronounced this way" - only "I pronounce it this way".

I don't even share RAW's Brooklyn accent, coming from the UK.  As we invented the language, and I speak 'received standard' English I figure I could tell you that I (at least) pronounce the 'e' as in pet, and the 'i' as in pit.  Both short vowels, just as it says in the Oxford English Dictionary.

I hate to appear eristic about it.   

If you believe that Eeristic nonsense because Merriam-Webster pronounces it that way then I guess you live out there in the ex-colonies.  M-W pronounce water like warder, for Eris's sake!

[LMNO]

Hey Mags,

We're all pretty much versed in E-Prime.  We just don't use it much, because it decreases the Lulz-flow, which deflaites the Lail.


And without Lail, no LOL.


But whatever.  Just wanted to give you a heads up about the pedantry.

[Bogus Magus]

I know how pedantic I can get - but if you don't like that I'll just pretend I am right and you are all wrong

It isn't pronounced ee-ris, but eh-ris....

[LMNO]

Heh.  I still like Felix's answer the best, though.