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[Ben Zimmer]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> How the H-word do you pronounce "pwned"?

Usually as "poned," but there are lots of pronunciation variants. From
2007, see:

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118679550023894850.html

via

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004872.html

--bgz

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