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.

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It's just "Owned" with a "P" at the beginning. P-Owned.
Same way you pronounce "Boned".

Your description made me read it like "pooned" at first.

Excuse me, this is the internet. There is nothing that can't be made into extreme controversy.

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.

Pown’d.

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...

Which brings us back to where we started:

How exactly do you pronounce pwned?

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

I agree, although looks like you and I stand pretty much alone in this among all these "hack-zors" lol

Correct. Written as pwned, pronounced "owned"

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Yup.

It's also the same "G" in George...

jaragge

What a mess of a word now that I look at it. Two Gs pronounced differently, an "E" at the end that does not effect the second "A" (as in Rag vs. Rage). Like imagine trying to pronounce that word if you've never seen it, or spell it if you'd only heard it

I was about to say that garage doesn't have the wrong "g" for GIF, but then I realized that some people might be ending "Garage" with an actual "j" sound

I bet you pronounce gif wrong, too.

NERDS!

Shameful to not link the original series, but I fully agree, it's definitely pronounced "owned", and anyone who says otherwise is a massive noob

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.

being angry on the internet is one thing, you have to give evidence to support your argument

Just for the benefit of anyone who doesn't know, this is not the actual etymology.

It just started as a misspelling of "owned" (with p and o being next to each other on the keyboard).

pwelshned

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!