Old Timey Pronunciation

How did/do you pronounce THAC0?

  • THACK (rhymes with "smack")-Oh

    Votes: 54 81.8%
  • THAYK (rhymies with "snake")-Oh

    Votes: 7 10.6%
  • Something else, which I will be kind enough to elucidate below

    Votes: 5 7.6%


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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.
 

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'.
 

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?
 

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.
 

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."
 



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