I think my personal pronunciation has been closer to kash-YEE-ick
But I think the canonical pronunciation (from the third of the movies-that-don’t-exist) is just ka-SHEEK (/kəˈʃik/).
One of the things that bugged me about those (wholly imaginary) prequels was the infantilization of the fictitious names of new planets and characters. Older, established names from the original trilogy and EU seemed evocative and quasi-exotic, like Tatooine, Dagobah, Coruscant, Corellia, Ord Mantell, Yavin, Kashyyyk… They all sounded like places from the Golden Age of Science Fiction without being too pulpy. Same with character names like Obi-wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, Leia Organa, Bossk, Boba Fett, Generals Rieekan, Dodonna, Madine, Veers, and Tagge, even Tarkin and Skywalker seem to perfectly walk the line between realistically mundane and wonderfully imaginative.
And then… the prequels. Naboo. Plo Koon. Dexter Jettster. Jar Jar Binks. Count Dooku. Kit Fisto. Darth Sidious. Poggle the Lesser. General Grievous. Theed. Boss Nass. Nute Gunray. Kamino. Mustafar.
4-LOM was created for Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, where he was played by Chris Parsons…His name was reportedly an acronym for “for love of money.” -source: Wookiepiedia
I may have misread it but I always assumed the acronym was an inside joke about Lucas populating his universe with potential action figures. I know a couple of parents who said all they could see when they watched the sequels was all the shit to buy.
Well, he is a bounty hunter, but that certainly doesn’t make your interpretation unreasonably cynical. I remember being 10 years old and first hearing out loud the names of Bossk, Zuckuss, and Dengar in a toy commercial and thinking they sounded like they’d been named by Kenner.
Yep. And Herbert’s bio is quite interesting, bolstered with a great interest in religions and by having worked in a wide variety of occupations. It’s easy for me to imagine all that informing him in helping to create evocative names that directly related to his characters and their stories. (Read: Frank didn’t pull names out of his ass like Lucas.)
I remember being 10 years old and first hearing out loud the names of Bossk, Zuckuss, and Dengar in a toy commercial and thinking they sounded like they’d been named by Kenner.
