Owned with a P sound in front.
Powned.
It's one of the first internet slang words I ever heard spoken over voice chat and it was always pronounced this way.
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I have heard people mispronounce it various other ways on purpose, ironically, as mockery, but I agree that depends on people knowing there's a correct pronunciation in the first place, which there is, as you've accurately described.
"Powned", long o
Yes
It's just "Owned" with a "P" at the beginning. P-Owned.
Same way you pronounce "Boned".
That's what she said
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Your description made me read it like "pooned" at first.
It is pronounced like pony; pown.
This isn't even a debate. It's canon. "Pooned" like poon is a comedic acceptable variant.
This clip from Brooklyn 99 uses what I consider to be the only two acceptable pronunciations. The first obviously the silly way, the second the proper.
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pohned is correct.
Pwned rhymes with boned.
Considering that it began as a typo of owned, this shouldn't be hard to figure out.
Excuse me, this is the internet. There is nothing that can't be made into extreme controversy.
On pure pwnage they pronounced it 'owned'
Yeah, that's how we'd say it when actually gaming. "Total ownage" man was that fun to yell at your friends while the four of you clustered around a CRT playing Halo on a 4-way split screen and one controller was always the garbage one and mountain dew affected you like cocaine...
It's pronounced pwned, as all right thinking people know
As it's written. Pwned. No need to stick an extra "o" or "a" or any other vowel in between.
It says "pwned", so "pwned" it is.
Which brings us back to where we started:
How exactly do you pronounce pwned?
Pee-double-you-NED!
I sometimes see people saying "pronounce it like it's the name of a Greek philosopher" or "pronounce it as if it was Spanish".
There's a "p", a "w", an "n", an "e" and a "d". Say those in a row. "As if it was Spanish", to make sure that e is really e and not i.
pwnedcles
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Like pwnd, which is something like pünd or /pʊnd/
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you gotta remember most people on here are not estonian so you gotta make it easy for the folks who need to insert extra letters just to not do a diphthong
Pronounced "owned." 1337 speak is cringe but thems the rules.
I agree, although looks like you and I stand pretty much alone in this among all these "hack-zors" lol
It's okay they've been wrong for decades, must sting.
Yup.
That's not a word I say out loud.
Who pronounces pwned
NERDS!
I bet you pronounce gif wrong, too.
Poownd obviously
Poned, but occasionally pew-ned for reasons
..pOWNed
like the chess piece with eight on each side. The one that can be promoted to any other non-king piece once it gets to the other side. pwned is getting your data leaked, being "pawned" means getting taken advantage of/being puppeted by a higher power, and I always linked that to being scammed through a phishing attack (and usually your data has been leaked, you have been pwned)
Yup, I also think of chess when I read it, so pawned - turned into a pawn, demoted to the weakest piece, etc. If I read owned, then it's owned.
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I say pwned, but I think pwned is also an acceptable pronunciation. But if you say it like pwned, you're dead to me.
After not knowing for ages, I recently discovered it was pronounced pooned. The W is pronounced the same as in Welsh.*
- The Welsh language, not the word "Welsh"
I'm def saying "pooned" from now on. I'm going to tell people it originated from Moby Dick and is short for "harpooned" 🤣🤣 Get 'Pooned ye Noob Whale!
As owned with a "puh" on the front, but not as an extra syllable.
Poond
- I'm Gerald of Nivea. Up for a game of Pwent?
"pfned"
Poowned
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