An unimportant nothing of a question hailing from frivolous contemporary pop culture

[Plot Device]

Lolzcat.

Is it pronounced "lahlz-cat" or "el-oh-elz-cat"??

[Smish]

Lolzcat.

Is it pronounced "lahlz-cat" or "el-oh-elz-cat"??

This made me laugh, Plot Device. I'm going with el-oh-elz-cat :)

[Plot Device]

Darn it! I knew I shoulda made a poll!

[semilargeintestine]

You should have, because I was going to say "lahlz-cat".

[Kitty Pryde]

Isn't it 'LOLcats'? Pronounced Lole-cats. As you can see, 'lolzcat' does not appear in the The Definitive Lolcats Glossary (http://speaklolspeak.com/page/J+%E2%80%93+L).

[selkn.asrai]

I pronounce it as "lawlcats." Don't know if that's correct, though.

[semilargeintestine]

I don't even know what the hell it means, I just pronounce it that way. Lole-cats.

[Plot Device]

I don't even know what the hell it means, I just pronounce it that way. Lole-cats.

Here's what it means:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat

(And yes, KittyPryde is correct, there is no "z". My bad.)


And here is a specimen example of lolcat:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Wikipedia-lolcat.jpg

[Williebee]

I've always heard it as aw, look, more crap.

ETA: :)

[semilargeintestine]

That's hilarious.

BTW, I love your avatar, Williebee.

[Siddow]

loll cats

loll cats!

They laugh out loud, but more often, they loll.

loll
   /lɒl/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [lol] Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used without object)
1. to recline or lean in a relaxed, lazy, or indolent manner; lounge: to loll on a sofa.
2. to hang loosely; droop; dangle: The dog stood in the heat with his tongue lolling out of his mouth.

:D

[DeleyanLee]

My daughter pronounces is "loll-cats" and chides me every time I say "L-O-L-cats"

[veinglory]

el-oh-el, no 'z'

[scarletpeaches]

Lolzcat.

Is it pronounced "lahlz-cat" or "el-oh-elz-cat"??

Neither. LOLcatz is pronounced...well...'lolcatz'.

[sunandshadow]

lole-cat/loll-cat is the only way I've heard it pronounced.

[Dawnstorm]

I don't think I ever heard anyone say "lolcats", but I always assumed "lollcats".

One way to check is for "a lolcat" vs. "an LOLcat". "A lolcat" (suggesting a pronunciation starting with "l") is more frequent on google (about 7 times more common than "an lolcat). If you do the same search on icanhascheezburger.com only (the authoritative source on lolcats), you get a similar result (it's now about 10 times as frequent).

Considering such puns as Philolsophers (http://www.flickr.com/groups/philolsophers/pool/) and lolcavore (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005114.html), which wouldn't work if you'd pronounce the letters seperately, I tend to think that "loll-cats" or "lole-cats" would be the default pronunciation.

Of course, LOLcatz still occurs, as with the makers of this quiz (http://www.quizilla.com/quizzes/7439576/if-you-were-an-lolcat-which-one-would-you-be). (Since the quiz isn't funny, I'm not sure it should count...)

[JennaGlatzer]

I'm going with lole-cats, too.

[Nakhlasmoke]

Loll-cats.

that's my pronunciation, anyway.

[alleycat]

By the way, you can listen to the lolcat article at wiki and hear how it's typically pronounced.

[Matera the Mad]

i alwaz sez it laik it iz rote http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/matera/chessie.gif