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How am I supposed to pronounced 'pwned'?

Can't we find something other than 4chan language to describe this?




I'm not a fan of the term but "pwned" predates 4chan.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/owned-pwned


‘owned’ with a P on the front.

At this point the term pwned seems far too well known (in the industry) to change it.

For example, it seems to be in my iPhone’s internal dictionary.


https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/pwn


Powned. Literally owned then add a hard p




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