Old Timey Pronunciation

[Water Bob]

Taco (as in 'Taco Bell')

Taco Bell?

Yo quiero THACO?

 

[Mouseferatu]

Bump for great justice. Or for more input. Y'know, whichever.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

I can't imagine saying it with a long-A. It just sounds ... bizarre ... in my head.

THAC0 is whack-o, Jacko.

 

[Mark CMG]

I got used to pronouncing it THACK - OH from going to Gencon in the early days and playing in the D&D Open run by TSR employees.

 

[sjmiller]

We would not pronounce it as a word, really. We usually asked, "What's your 'To Hit?'"

Other then that, I would pronounce it with a short 'a' (as in 'at') and a long "o" (as in 'show') and say 'THA-ko'.

 

[Water Bob]

I can't imagine saying it with a long-A. It just sounds ... bizarre ... in my head.

THAC0 is whack-o, Jacko.

I feel the same about the reverse. THACO as in "whack-o" sounds strange.

I wonder if it's a dialect thing. Southern US says THAY-Co. Northern US says it like "whack-o".

What about Britian and other countries. Is there a consensus?

 

[Mouseferatu]

I wonder if it's a dialect thing. Southern US says THAY-Co. Northern US says it like "whack-o".

Nope. I've lived in Texas since I was a year old. Learned to game in Houston, been part of multiple groups in Houston and Austin, and sat in on many games I wasn't playing in.

I never heard "THAY-co" in my life until a few days ago.

 

[airwalkrr]

Although I have been lured into calling it "thack-oh" before, which is what I voted for, I usually express it in speech as "To Hit AC Zero."

 

[messy]

"THACK-o," but occasionally "THWACK-o," for laughs and onomatopoeia.

 

[AuldDragon]

"THACK-o," but occasionally "THWACK-o," for laughs and onomatopoeia.

Heh, my group used to use THWACK-O too.

Jeff