<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">--- On Mon, 12/14/09, Josh Smift <irilyth@infersys.com> wrote:<br>> NW> pwnt, v. Gaming slang. Simple past form of "pwn", to beat by a large margin<br>> NW> - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pwn<br>> NW> * My hope that it would be mistaken for Welsh worked on a number of<br>> NW> you, but there are too many other gamers on the list :oP.<br>><br>> I am hopeful that this word (and its variants) will come to be pronounced<br>> as if it were a Welsh word.<br><br>I am all for Welsh (it's a beautiful language; even Welsh-accented English is beautiful), but if you pronounce "pwn" with Welsh pronunciation, it's entirely too similar to a word that was disrespectful slang for one of the distinguishing features of the female anatomy, at least when I was growing up;-)<br><br><br></td></tr></table><br>