Tips:

• Pronounce this word as one syllable.
• Be sure to pronounce
  /s/ first and then
  /k/. Reversing these sounds produces the word “axed.”
• Stop the
  /k/ and then explode the
  /t/ lightly. Exploding the
  /k/ results in the word being slightly over-pronounced but is preferable to omitting the
  /k/ altogether, which results in the non-word “assed.” (We can only guess as to what this might mean.)