How do you spell the universal explosion word?

Bamf is Nightcrawler teleporting.

KER-POW

or

KKKEEEERRRR PPPOooowwwWWW

if you prefer.

What’s wrong with the universally accepted good old BOOM?
BOUM, if your French.

chic. . .bbbrrooooofffk

Short ‘o’ not long ‘o’. Like the ‘o’ with the dots above it?

I guess that boom would be more accurate to use during conversation. As it is more of a word than kerpow.

For instance you wouldn’t say:

I heard a loud kerpow outside, so I went to investigate.

or

I heard the dog woof, so I went to investigate.

You would more than likely say:

I heard a loud boom outside, so I went to investigate.

or

I heard the dog bark, so I went to investigate.

It seems as though kerpow and woof, are the actual sounds that we try to imitate (but can’t, due to our vocal coards). Whereas Boom and Bark are the words that describe the sounds. Perhaps thats why we use those instead?

The word everyone’s been dancing around, but not actually mentioning is onomotopoeia. - using words in imitation of sounds.

From Joe Random’s post, about fifteen above yours:

And Joe even spelled it right!! :smiley:

I heard the dog go “wu wu” in China, “wan wan” in Japan, and “tyaff tyaff” in Russia.

Snikt

pops claws

The sound you make with your voice when you’re trying to convey the sound of something blowing up is :

B cm cm cmc mc mc mc mc fsfsfsfsf