Are you absolutely sure the reader's head won't put "saggis" in his mouth? Do you not fear that he might think you have merely used an unusual word, beyond his ken, bow to your superior vocabulary and move on?
I ask as someone who often bases her own pronunciation of words on poetic representation in the works of formalists. Whoever has read "Julius Caesar" could never say "ConTROVVERsy" nor call the composer "PurCELL" when Dryden (who knew the man) scans it incontrovertibly "PURcell".
Bonjour, sagesse?
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