There's a great place online: http://www.urbandictionary.com Here's there definition: A corruption of the word "Owned." This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled "owned." When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so "has been owned." Instead, it said, so-and-so "has been pwned." It basically means "to own" or to be dominated by an opponent or situation, especially by some god-like or computer-like force. "Man, I rock at my job, but I still got a bad evaluation. I was pwned." OR "That team totally pwned us." ------------------------------------------ And another great place for some... Wilipedia... and their pronounciation: "Given the recent development of the word, and its primary use in written form only, there is no single accepted pronunciation of pwn, as there are no vowels, this often leads to arguments about the "correct" pronunciation. Pronunciation is usually determined by personal preference and the context of the game being played. Common variations include the following: [oʊn] ("own", in reference to the original misspelling — a common pronunciation), [poʊn] (as in "corn pone" — also a common pronunciation), [pun] (as in "harpoon"), [pəʔˈoʊn] ("puh-own"), [piˈoʊn], [pən], [pwin], or [pɔn] as in "pawn". It can also be pronounced phonetically, as [pw'nd] (pwən). In the 2006 South Park episode, "Make Love, Not Warcraft," which satirized the game "World of Warcraft," the word is pronounced [poʊn] (pone), rhyming with "own". This term is also put into play during this episode as Stan Marsh, one of the main characters states,"That was über pwnage.", pronounced ("pohnage", rhyming with ownage) In "Teen Girl Squad", by Strong Bad, in issue 10 as "PØwned" appears on the screen it is pronounced as, "Puh-owned! Or however you say that!" Later a derivative of "pwn", "P4wned", appears, and it is pronounced as "Puh-ahned." During the telecast of the 2006 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, Daniel Negreanu tells Mike Matusow that Mike Sexton "pwned" (pronounced [poʊn]) Matusow with an especially good play. The closed-captioning, however, misinterpreted Negreanu's remark as "boned." The internet TV show Pure Pwnage claims that the word is really pronounced as "own" as it was a spelling mistake in the first place. In the movie "Employee of the Month" the Character played by Dane Cook uses Pwn'ed (Pronounced PONED) during a competitive scene." Bottom Line: Everybody says it correctly! What can I say??? I'm a researcher! :lol: :lol:
gotta love WoW lawl and woop and woot woop=we own other players woot=we own other team XD all from WoW and its pwned!!!! not poon pawn looks gay lmao
its pronounced owned, it came around cause p is next to o and ppl get making a typo and writing you got pwned, its just like when ppl type teh instead of the.
For some reason I pronounce it pawned. I dunno it's just really funny when we say it like "Jenny just pawned me via text message" it sounds like a chess term.