This is an important question. We American slobs say a$$ cot, but a proper, English ascoteer might very well pronounce it a$$ cut, especially when speaking in haste.
Paying attention to such subtleties will assure Mr. eyeFISH, Esq. a lengthy, prominent stay amongst the Order. Good show, Sir!
Well I found a definitive source... the ones supporting anal fissures got it right.
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/pronunciation/british/Ascothttp://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/royal-ascotI should say that various of the wordplays one may give in to the temptation to make on Ascot actually don’t work if you pronounce it the British way. The cot, you see, is reduced entirely (somewhat like the base of a fascinator), making Ascot sound rather like ask it and go nicely with waistcoat (“weskit”). So it’s a tisket, a tasket, a basket worn at Ascot; the lid of it hangs before her bangs, and her head looks like a casket. (How does it stay on? Perhaps with an elastic.) The word comes from east cot, “east cottage”. It is, as it looks, an English word of thoroughbred pedigree.Seenin' as how I'm just a beer swillin' country singin' red-necked Ornamental who drags dead fish and bounces big globs of fish guts to catch most my salmon, I am not worthy of the Order.
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