How do you pronounce "Onett"? 

if you mispronouncing sii-va gunner was intentional then this might be your best video ending yet

I pronounce it "Wun-tee-tee" because I enjoy making people angry. Thank you for this video. People take pronunciation personally!

i personally pronounce onett "high-drossity"

I pronounce it onett

I always sounded it in my mind as "On-it" - like, Ness is "on it" or ready to go on his adventure.

ive been saying oh-nett my entire life and i had never even considered another pronunciation existing

Having someone make a video on how to pronounce a single word really says something about this community. And I love it.

My thought is that the single n implies a long “oh” sound and the double t STRONGLY implies an accented “ett” so I would disagree with the idea of the “onnit” pronunciation being the most phonetic. That said, English hates its own rules so.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I do like your interpretation of the "Oh-net" pronunciation and will be adopting it as my headcanon; although for people who want to pronounce it "On-et", I came up with an interpretation that it's because it's the place where Ness accepts his mission to save the world from Giygas. ("I'm *on it* !")

More evidence towards oh-net would be that onett is in the north western corner of eagle land (this is proved by the official earthbound world map.) Since eagle land represents america, the first people to colonize this area were the spanish. And if you put 'onett' in spanish in google translate, it says oh-net. But for some reason I will still say on-it

Your channel is very underrated, but I know it will grow. Keep making good content like this, and I'm sure you'll develop a bigger following.

Oh, neat! A video about the pronunciation of Onett! I've always wunted one on it!

Growing up in Canada and taking French in school, I always called it Oh-Nette (with a french accent)

Great video!! I really enjoy all your videos. I pronounce it “Own-ett” because that’s how I’ve always pronounced it. Although I get why people would say “One-tt” like the number. The history lesson was great!!

Onett is just the the Hydrocity of the Mother fandom (also it’s been confirmed that it’s pronounced Hydro city, not hydrossity)

Wow, so much potential lore behind a simple pronounceiation. I'm still gonna say "oh-net" though.

Since I played this game for the first time about two months ago, I wasn’t aware that there was a controversy. Well, I can say for sure that I definitely pronounce it Onett!

Was not expecting the history lesson at the end, caught me entirely off-guard. Good video (but I'm still gonna say "one-et").

imma just call it 'funny smash town' from now on fuck it

Yes, he did Rick roll me at the end. My online career died before it started.

I’ll forever say “oh-net” because it just sounds better.

I like how you featured the Mother Remake maps at 2:17.

bro i’ve seen that animation like 1billion times and Love it like it’s my first time seeing it

I’ve never thought that much about it, I just use both of them and switch when I feel like it

Personally, my mind gravitates towards “On-eht” it makes the most sense to me and sounds the most pleasing (also very American sounding given the Eagleland setting)

AH dang! This video is why you are my fav Earthbound/Mother youtuber (actually one of my favorite RU-vidrs in general) Most of these pronunciations I'm literally going off of from when me and my brother used to play SNES as kids, I actually found out a little while ago that I'd been pronouncing Chrono Trigger wrong (I always said Craw-No instead of Crow-No) and actually back when I heard you call it "One" ett I was like "Darnit, my bro and me were bad at pronouncing words correctly as kids lol" but then you did this incredible research and video to bring honor to the Oh-nett community, for which I'm eternally grateful but even more you made me realize, it doesn't matter how you pronounce it, as long as you love it- that's all that matters! P.s. You kinda got me saying "One-ett" now lol talk about a brain swap!!

I used to pronounce it "Oh-net", but I now pronounce it "On it".

I call it "On-it" because if I said it the other way that would imply that I would call Hydrocity "Hydro City' Instead of Hydrocity (Like velocity,)

i pronounce it as oh-net because i like to fish and throw those big nets to acquire dinner

I believe when I first saw the name "Onett" when I first read the strategy guide, I pronounced it "On-ett", then when I put together the numbering system of the towns, I figured it might be "One-et" then at some point after that I now say "Oh-nett" and I'm not even sure why that is. Objectively "One-et" would make the most sense due to the numbered cities, but something about the cadence of it doesn't feel right to me. I find your old English theory interesting though, Itoi can be quite clever with details like that. Also, it blew my mind the first time it was brought to my attention that "ONEtt TWOson THREEd FOURside TENda", I didn't make that connection for the longest time. It begs the question, where are towns five, six, etc. However, after having boned up on the Japanese translation, I read that Tenda Village in the translation is more closely translated as "Gummi Village", so from what I understand the Tenda Village following the number system isn't a Japanese translation decision. However I wonder if that was something that the translators took upon themselves? If so, kudos for sneaking the joke back in so late in the game!

I, for some reason, flip between "on-it" and "oh-net", and while I see where "won-et" would be used, I never not once have pronounced it like that. It feels absolutely foul saying it, too

So by your logic, if the number "one" was originally pronounced "own" then the great vowel shift should have changed the pronunciation of Onett from "oh-nett" to "one-ett" as well, keeping the number pronunciation intact? Great video, you present several good points for discussion.

Bro this is the same debate with Hydro city zone

I tricked tons of people with that Silvagunner rip, also I pronounce it Onett, no wait that jokes been done before, so I pronounce it Ounehteetey.

Oh-Knee-Tea

okay that explanation for Oh-net is now my headcanon and i’ll say Onett as Oh-net from now on

I pronounce it on et when it comes to et i pronounce it like jet without the j so on-et

3:15 best part of the video, just look at ness.

0:42 Ayy! Also, side note, when you look at the signs in the town by the northern side, the one saying “Onett town” and the one saying “Onett” the letters highlighted are “one on one”. Why does that matter? It doesn’t.

Oh-nett is more or less how I always said it(can't think of a time I said it differently). It just sounded the most natural to me language wise.

I never put more thought about that. I'll just say "Ohne-Zwei T" for now on, though. After all one is between null and 2, so that checks.

I was a teen when this game came out, and and we said oh-net, but wunt is my new favorite.

I've always pronounced it as On-it, yeah the numbers on the names didn't really click with me till later in the game.

I say ah-net bc a long o can be shortened to an ah in and that can turn into the official way to say it. One example is the British pronunciation of herb (hrrb) kids pronounced the H which was only there bc the French added and it was never said in herb.

I always imagined it rhyming with bonnet

People always way it's "Oh-net" or "On-it". I say "OhOn-it".

I call it One-et. Since the number thing with the first few towns have a number theme to it.

0:40 MOM IM THERE

On-ette On-it But.. when you think about it.. two-son or two-saaahn (like tucson az), threed (or threek if you're in Japan), fourside... one two three four... one-ette

It's easier for spanish people (no, we don't call it unott), i think we all just say "O-nett" like a bug net or sum

O-net's my favorite

I say "ON-IT" And sometimes I say "OH-NET'.

I've always pronounced it as Oh-net

Pronunciation arguments are so quaint nowadays- as long as I understand what your talking about there's no reason to get upset. imo the ONEtt TWOson THREEd FOURside naming scheme was most likely haphazardly thrown together to be a consistent naming scheme without much concern for pronunciation. Text based JRPGs did this all the time- with no voice acting, words can be created to look correct when read but actually don't work when spoken audibly. The Oh-net connection you made to the old pronunciation of the word One is probably on accident but I appreciate the research cuz thats how I pronounced it anyway.

Since I'm a Spanish speaking person, I pronnounce it "Oh-net".

I pronounce it as On-it

I always just read it as "Oh-Net."

Own-ett is more fun, but one(1)-ett makes more sense considering the numbering name system of the first few towns. On-it is just wrong.

I just beat Earthbound for the first time yesterday. When I started the game I got to Twoson and realized "Onett, Twoson, Threed, Fourside." I had never realized before and it me like a ton of bricks.

I say it like "wunt", if only to make my friends angry

I say "O Net" Thanks to Chuggaaconroy

i pronounce it woah-nett with stress on the second syllable

Aughnyetet

When i first played the game as a kid, I pronounced it as Oh-Net. Then as I got older, I started toying with other pronunciations, but never really settled on any one answer. Nowadays I just don't care.

Onett is infamous for it's pronunciation, own net makes sense considering I don't own a net but whatever it's better than one net or being on it I guess.

I felt so confused when you said the big 3 cause i was here like its not "One'tt" given that the others are TWOson THREEd and FOURside, it just makes sense for it to be One (Said as Won-t-t")...But now after reading "Wun-Tee_tee" that clearly is the correct way.

I wasn’t expecting you where gonna pronounce it: OH-net. As I do too. Oh ye and I say twoson like how it looks: so instead of “2 son” I say “twoson”.

every time I try to pronounce it, I explode, observe, on- *CCCCCCCCCCCRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHH!!!* (funni guy took mortal damage!)

i think both "onet" and "want" are good because onet feels natural and Want is literally 1tt, like the rest: you have 2son, 3d/3k (3d? hmm maybe that's why it's ThreeD in particular) and 4side

I'm a weird fellow that says Oh-ney but I also alternate with on-net or one-net Idk why lol

I used to pronounce twoson like twonson

I always call it On-nett😂

Tf you mean once the get to the town that’s the one you start in… this is a joke I love your videos

As a kid I pronounce it o-net cause I saw the full word onett

I think it’s oo-net

Onett 🤝 Hydrocity Fans arguing over how to pronounce their names

Lol, never heard wunt. Totally gonna call it that now🤣🤣🤣

I am Ah-Net's strongest soldier

Eh I'd say Onett is pronounced wrong, its Onett, however Onett could also be correct, but I pronounce it Onett

3:15 go to cursed images please

I pronounce it as On Net because I can't break out of habits.

I've started pronouncing it 1-ett to go with 2-sawn, threed, and 4-side.

i say it like “on-it” 💀

It's always "One net" to me.

"oh net" is how I pronounce it

I'm on it again y'all!

If you don’t pronounce it like either “On-Net” or “On-Nit” then you taking the fattest Ls

Wouldnt the other make threed pronounced as "Three-D" lol

Oh net

I’ve always pronounced it “On-it”

I assumed everyone said oh-net

I know im wrong, but I like saying it like the words "On it!"

wunt or ah-nEt (the ah coming from a oh without stress) all other answers are heresy.

I like more the spanish spell O-net

I always pronounced it On-ett but that’s probably wrong

I always pronounced it oh-net

ah yes, one-tt

Unott, Doshijo, Tresd, cuatrolado

Isay oh-net

i say one-ett because it rolls off the tongue the easiest to me