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

Plot Device said:

Lolzcat.

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

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

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

Isn't it 'LOLcats'? Pronounced Lole-cats. As you can see, 'lolzcat' does not appear in the The Definitive Lolcats Glossary.

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

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

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

ETA:

That's hilarious.

BTW, I love your avatar, Williebee.

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.

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

el-oh-el, no 'z'

Plot Device said:

Lolzcat.

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

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

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

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 and lolcavore, 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. (Since the quiz isn't funny, I'm not sure it should count...)

I'm going with lole-cats, too.

Loll-cats.

that's my pronunciation, anyway.

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

i alwaz sez it laik it iz rote