I am thinking “Oar-a-boss”. Sound right?
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I thought it was oar-uh-bose but that’s my initial pronunciation so might not be right.
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ore-oh-bose
Kinda how you pronounce ouroboros
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Wacky infinite snake thing.
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I personally pronounce like this due to speaking portuguese:
O U RO BO ROS.
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new card isn’t making Ouroboros it is making Ourobos
so by your statement would it be
O U RO BOS
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for me, it’s “Ooh- row- Bose”.
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I pronounce it “Not Baku”
roy-oar-bis-un
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i pronounce it oar-oh-bos as in boast
It is propably a reference to Ouroboros, so it should correctly be pronounced as:
Hawk-Tuah
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It’s pronounced “that broken power creep thing”.
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Oar-oh-biss is probably how you pronounce it since it sounds close to the actual snake, boss being used may sound too alien from the inspiration
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Not to me. Good question, though. 
The name is obviously a reference to ‘Uroboros’, which sounds like ‘ooh-raw-BORE-us’ to me, so I was thinking ‘ooh-raw-BOSS’. However, as it turns out, there are alternate spellings and pronunciations available for the original word:
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ouroboros
The first version there sounds really, really anglicised to me, though, I don’t like it at all.
There is even this, although it’s a questionable ‘source’:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
I didn’t know all that, so thanks for raising an interesting question!
The versions suggested here (apart from Mallenroh, who got quite close! Only those ‘ou’ diphthongs sound amiss to me) sound really like… like those hillbillies saying ‘sEmsung’ for ‘Samsung’ (Ugh!), or ‘HEEEEEns’ for ‘Hans’ (a big A there, as in a ‘star’), or failing to pronounce the name of Niklaus Wirth — of course, it’s ‘we-rt’, not ‘worth’ (and the first name is ‘nick-louse’, of course), so he’d even joke that he’d be called by reference in Europe and by value (‘worth’ ) in North America — those who are familiar with programming will get it.
No surprise about the literacy level of the forum audience, though.
Go with the New Vegas Old World Blues approach and call him Borous/Boris
But can you even pronounce this particular name properly? If not, that’d be embarrassing.
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Or-uh-bore-ohss 20ch
Pronouncing things is subjective based on locality. People in Minnesota say their spelled the very same words as Georgians very differently. And both are fine. Im reminded of my old GPS that had an Australian voice option, she would pronounce my city’s name very very differently than Ive ever heard it before and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Pensacola. I grew up knowing it as Pens-uh-cola, with a cadence like 2 pairs of 8th notes. 
but GPS lady from Aussie land said it “Pen-SACK-uh-La” with a cadence like 4 bridged 16th notes or whatever the notes that have a dominant sounding strike on a drum, soft first syllable, strong emphasis on 2nd, soft again on 3rd, strong again on 4th). Very amusing and unexpected pronunciation of the city i call home. To this day I use both interchangeably lol.
So Boris sounds exactly like it looks to me, like the cartoon characters from Rocky and Bullwinkle, Boris and Natasha. Bor-is/Bor-as/Bor-us, all sound the same, im just giving the different letter options you might recognize to make the sound that mirrors each other.
as for that wild and crazy looking name of Nicklaus Wirth, thats all over the place tho and understandably so. Could be a “terrible Parents that give their kid the name Kaateliyne as opposed to Katelin” scenario but about the name Nicolas, or the overly American Dad’s Goldfish Klaus version of Nicolas, Ni-Klaus. Then there are those that audibly pronounce the o in Nicolas and not make the name audibly sound “Nic-lus” but instead say “Nick-o-lus”. As for the last name… I cant not see it as its spelling out Worth but with an I. making me wanna say Wii-Earth but thats a bit silly to me so Worth is what it is most likely to be. That completely out of nowhere version you supplied is just a way to cheat at Scrabble. lol
Actually, the stress in ‘Boris’ is, of course, on the second syllable, so it sounds like ‘baw-REECE’… unless you are some nasty fat guy with dishevelled hair or something of the sort, I suppose 
, which is a very rare exception. So no, those three spellings sound all different.
This passage… reminds me of a phenomenon how some hillbillies project their own home settlement of Redneckville or whatever on the rest of the world, assuming everyone lives like them, speaks their pidgin or dialect etc. Geography? Never heard of it… Paris? What’s that? A neighbouring village, methinks… Oh, not that, you say, some town or whatever? Probably named after that village, right? How unimaginative! Shakespear? What a stupid name, sounds just like my pal’s cat, lol, and sometimes it srcatches those those pear trees so hard that they indeed shake! 
Books, you say? What hogwash, who reads such trash anyway. Not in my family, we, the Hicks, ain’t have no time fer such nonsense — that paper’s great for stoking fire, though, better than manure!
Try confronting them about it, though. Those hayseeds don’t even perceive that they’re missing something; in fact, they’ll probably either giggle at what they cannot possibly comprehend or become offended.