Is this just a silly British thing?

Me too. I'm British too- we must be the quaint ones who don't get it.

I'm not british but I thought the same thing. lol.

Is it not pronounced 'pawned'? I'm British and I never knew. :D

we don't say pwnd in Holland. :D

I'm british and i never really knew what it meant at all to be honest but i still kept typing it online like eveyone else anyway hahah.

But yes, i would have thought it was pronounced pawned aswell, like as in Chess when あなた get took of the board? I'm so clueless lol!

...oh well... Meh...

I am australian and we use pawned. I think that it is refering to chess. Like getting beat. Not really sure becauseI don't use it but that is how my friend says it.

I didn't know so many people didn't know what it meant または how it is pronounced. Guess that's because I'm American...

あなた don't say pwned? One of my best フレンズ here, Mrs-Grint, is British and she says it all the time... But the again, it might be from talking to Americans too much XD
によって the way, yay AVPS! :D

I always pronounced it "pwuh-ned"

Im American and I always thought it was Pawned till I heard a kid say Poned Dx

I pronounce it pawned too lol

Wait... it's not pronounced pawned? I'm australian and I thought that.

I thought it was 'pawned' but most British and Americans do pronounce things differently, like in Britain most of us say 'Tomato' as "Tomarto" and if I've watched enough American TV, they pronounce it as "Tomaito"? :) ♥

It's 'poned'?
When I say it, I always pronounce it 'pyowned' XD
Plus, we don't use 'pwned' here.

I'm not from Britain but I thought it was pronounced that way too lol I guess it's also a Canadian thing too :P