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KASS-ee-us
Originally, that is a Latin name from antiquity. (Look here for a list of Romans named Cassius: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_%28gens%29)
It got contracted to KASH-us in English only later.
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Originally, that is a Latin name from antiquity. (Look here for a list of Romans named Cassius: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_%28gens%29)
It got contracted to KASH-us in English only later.
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I've never heard it pronounced KASH-us except by Mohammed Ali; perhaps this is usual in American, but not in British/Commonwealth English.
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