Originally Posted by Aprikot
My 3rd grader has recently taken to saying "pone" when he plays the Wii. Not sure which is worse...that he says it at all or that he doesn't pronounce it like I do (I alway think "pawn" when I read pwn).  |
Considering this:
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The word pwn most likely came about as a common typo of the word "own" because the "p" and "o" keys are adjacent on a standard English keyboard.
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I've always read it as "pown". This was also apparently originated as the aforementioned typo in the game Counter-Strike.