whuggle

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sick, sick people.

JL

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

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> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > How the H-word do you pronounce "pwned"?
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> Usually as "poned," but there are lots of pronunciation variants. From
> 2007, see:
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> http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118679550023894850.html
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> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004872.html
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