I'll tell yau what I wabt, what I really really wabt: tell me how you pronounce the word "wabt"?

-- Zed The Red Who Isn't Yet Dead (zed@swansongs.net), October 15, 1999

Answers

I always thought it pronounced like waabt.

-- Rebecca the.. Azteca? (peka@att.net), October 15, 1999.

Actually, I'd been wondering about that one for a while. For me, it ends up as "wobb't", which bears a strange resemblance to 'Robert' is said with a speech problem.

Haunting? (No, that's a bit TOO obscure.)

-- Flamebyrd (flamebyrd@hotmail.com), October 16, 1999.

Like want. Just with a b instead of the n.

And what do you mean, you don't care if you have to divorce me? Mimph.

-- Sabeth (sabeth@saucybard.com), October 16, 1999.

V. v. v. similiar to "wapt". Which actually sounds a lot like "wobb't" given that b and p are both unvoiced explosive consonants. Woohoo.

(I don't wabt to be divorced either, you know. Trent!)

-- Venom (never@swansongs.net), October 16, 1999.

/w&bt/, if at all i.e. with the same vowel as (the American pronunciation of) "bat" for comparison: "want" /w@nt/, "punt" /p@nt/, "rabbit" /'r& bIt/, "CZ" /si zi/

-- Dennis, the aforementioned American informer (dennis@himes.connix.com), October 16, 1999.

want= waunt, when I i say it. ("aunt" being pronounced like they pronounce it in new england. *shrug*) wabt is the same way, but with a "bt" instead of an "nt", although sometimes it sounds like a "pt" *shrug*

-- The Strange Little Bunny (reverie83@hotmail.com), October 16, 1999.

Basically the same as Topia for me, I'd say, though I do think you've heard me say "wabt" in person.

(No divorces, yau! Don't You Forget About Us!)

-- Twi (kitre@agora.rdrop.com), October 17, 1999.

i say it as:

wah-but

-- AshTrai (adfafaf@Afgagaqg.com), December 29, 2002.