How do you pronounce the word "Bob-omb"?

[There may be a secret.]

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[Koopa con Carne]

option 2, per Dennis Hopper:

 

[I'm the lil bro.]

I say it as Bob-Ahm since that is how it's spelled. It's like, if you're saying sixty-year-old, you don't pronounce it "six-tyear-rold", you know?

 

[Mags]

I actually always just said "Bomb" like normal (and still do half the time) but I believe any of the options you listed are just as likely as the others. The way I say it changes practically every time.

 

[fantanoice]

bɒb ɒm

'boh bomb' is the closest but I don't pause after the 'oh'. Voting other!

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I say it as Bob-Ahm since that is how it's spelled

'ah' isn't an 'o'

 

[I'm the lil bro.]

'ah' isn't an 'o'

Well, no, but there's no option for just 'o' on the poll. I imagine the idea was that it sounds similar to "on".

 

[Ray Trace]

Bob omb, with the stress on the first syllable. Many people do stress the second syllable though.

 

[MiracleDinner]

What blof said is how I pronounce it

 

[Thomas the Tank Engine]

I've always pronounced it Buh-bomb entirely because I spent my entire childhood reading the word as Bo-bomb and not Bob-omb.

(Bo-bomb still makes more sense to me than Bob-omb tbh)

 

["Scary" Wolf]

I've always said "Bomb" Omb, not realizing until much later it was actually Bob-Omb.

 

[Bob Craples]

It's pronounced how it's spelled.

 

[Vivian]

Sometimes I just call them Bob.

 

[I'm the lil bro.]

I've always pronounced it Buh-bomb entirely because I spent my entire childhood reading the word as Bo-bomb and not Bob-omb.

(Bo-bomb still makes more sense to me than Bob-omb tbh)

It definitely makes more sense for the name to be Bo-bomb, but I guess that's a little harder to make out like it's an original name lol.

 

[Yoshi! Yoshi!]

I've always said it as Bomb-Om.

 

[PaperSplash]

I think it's supposed to be BOB-omb (as a play on the name Bob and the word bomb), but sometimes I get lazy and say buh-BOMB.

 

[Eric B]

Buh-Bomb (B-Bomb), because that's how they pronounced it on the cartoon. Before that, I assumed it the way it's spelled; "Bob-omb", and then it figured the cartoon way was simpler to say.

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

I just said "Bob-omb" with the stress on the first syllable. BOB-omb. Why do most people not pronounce the last consonant tho

 

[There may be a secret.]

Why do most people not pronounce the last consonant tho

Phonetics I guess

 

[J-Yoshi64]

BAH-bomb. Accent on the BAH, like I'm a sheep.

 

[Snack]

/bɑm ɑm/

 

[Bowser-Rex84]

Definitely between "Buh-bomb" and "Bob-Ahm" I find myself jumping between the two at points.