How to pronounce “scummy” in English

It was a dank October evening, and I was at work on a story about the Oregon Jesters women's rugby team. They invited me out to a practice, and at the coach's suggestion, I brought mysoccer cleats. I soon found myself ordered to crouch to the scummy turf, then wedge my head between the legs of the two players in front of me. These women, a 'prop' and a 'hooker,applied a stubbly vice grip to my skull, pressing from each side in an apparent effort to reduce my ears to pulp. Then I reached up between my new friend's legs to grab the waistband

or even faster. You know, hour by hour by hour.And truly, I discovered the solution that kind of balanced this equation perfectly sitting there in a scummy little Masonjar in my kitchen.