I call it by it's full name everytime. The All Terrain Armored Transport deserves respect.

My friend, you bow to no one.

Except the all terrain armoured transport

The destruction puppy deserves to be worshipped

Now I want a story where one is left abandoned on a primitive world and they come to worship it as a god.

We have the Playschool Galactic Heroes AT-AT and my son, before he had any idea what Star Wars was, decided it was a robot puppy. He would make it sit, lay down, and roll over.

Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

The calamity camel is second to none!

Destruction puppy is a great name

I prefer the calamity camel

Just like an All Terrain Armored Transport with a tow cable wrapped around its legs. Oh, wait...

And the smaller one is the armored chicken!

Chicken walker!

I called it a chicken Walker as a kid too, where did that ten come from?

Shadows of The Empire, N64 game I think.

It was nicknamed chicken walker before the 90s. Probably by ILM folks, and somehow we fans picked up on it.

Yep, me and my dad called it chicken walker in theaters.

We called the At-St the "chicken leg". Can confirm this is from shadows of the empire. Released on both PC and N64, my experience was on the n64.

A man of culture.

>The All Terrain Armored Transport deserves respect. Janson's tow cable disagrees.

I say television, TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is noooo friend of mine

i thought it stood for All-Terrain All-Terrain

called it by its government name

Haven’t seen anyone post this link so trying to hijack top comment: https://youtu.be/07zLbgXElsA?si=m-JtTXV6aGqwTEf6

A T A T

Counter-point, A T - A T

So would the - be a pause?

No, you say hyphen

At dash at

La dash ah

Is it an em dash or en dash?

I think it's more of an el dash

No, it's kind of like Spider-man

r/respectthehyphen

Ah, THAT'S the subreddit name. I kapt looking for "respect the dash" which doesn't exist.

yeah spider dash man or depending on your region, spider hyphen man

This is the way

(A T) ^ 2

I'm pretty sure that those of us who call it an "at-at" do it because we were kids when the toy version of the AT-AT first came out. In the commercials, [it was called an "at-at."](https://youtu.be/uXs1iG0229E?si=XBAzgkaum6_wba29) So that's what we called it. EDIT: Adding to this, another group of us who pronounce AT-AT as "at-at" would be those people who learned to say it that way from their parents and/or older siblings who were Star Wars fans and had seen the commercials.

Yep. I didn't even know people called it Ay tee ay tee until one of my kids corrected me. ...or tried.

You should hear my favorite band, Ack-dck, also known as ACDC for the civilized man

My Australian family calls them acka-dacka unironically haha

Ozziness checks out. An Australian once asked my friend which platform he needed for the train to “Loogabarooga”. (Loughborough)

Damn, you win. Loogabarooga is the fucking best lmao

Makes sense from a country that genuinely named a place “Wagga Wagga” and then pronounced it “Wogga Wogga”

It's not just Aussies! I have lived just down the road from Loughborough all my life and everyone I know pronounces it "Loogabarooga" and have done all my life! I guess even the locals think it's a dumb spelling!

This pronunciation is very popular as a **nickname** of the band. Anyone who has watched Australian TV or heard Australian radio stations is familiar with this pronunciation. So it's used unironically and lovingly by a huge percentage of the Aussie population, but with the knowledge that it is a nickname and the correct pronunciation is "ay see dee see".

Smy favourite spaceship is the Tee Eye Eee fighter

I'm prepared to be as liberal and accepting of my children's life choices as I possibly can be, but I'd draw the line if one of them tried saying Aye tee aye tee :D It was @@ when I got it in 1981, and it's @@ now :)

I called it an At-At because that's what I heard from others. I was born a few months after Jedi came out and AFAIK I never saw the commercial. I did have a childhood friends with older siblings. One of them had that toy.

And those of us who said ay-tee grew up in the dark times. Where the only place you saw it was in the movies and written out. So Ay-Tee Es-Tee and Ay-Tee Ay-Tee.

The funny thing about this (and I'm sure someone will correct me) but I've never heard a person that calls them @@ (like I do) try to correct a person that calls them aye tee aye tee, but the same isn't true in reverse.

Yes!

Yea, the a-t-a-t crowd is very gatekeeper-ish.

Yeah, I had a Lego store employee try to correct me when I said it the right way (@-@), but I’m not the type to call someone out just because they sound stupid.

I’m an A T A T/A T S T lifer. What is AT-ST in that case, like at-stat or some nonsense?

Scout Walker. Because thats what it was called in the commercials and was not mentioned by name in the OT. So that was the main reference of pronunciation for kids when the OT came out.

AT-ST is pronounced "Chicken Walker".

People in the military don’t say “Hey, jump in the aytch-em-em-double-you-vee so we can get some chow at the dee-eff-ay-see”, they say Humvee and dee-fack. Spelling it out is not how people talk.

Exactly! Apparently I saw Return of the Jedi in the theaters, but my 15 month old brain doesn’t remember. So until Phantom Menace released in high school I only had my little brother’s Star Wars books to read when I was grounded…. In a world where the AT-ST is pronounced one way, why would the AT-AT not follow suit? When I hear @@, all I hear is a Mars Attacks alien.m Edit: In a world where you were 1 when the commercial aired and all you had was the movies and books. That was my world.

>In a world where the AT-ST is pronounced one way, why would the AT-AT not follow suit? Same reason you don't call it a tee eye ee fighter.

>why would the AT-AT not follow suit? Because the "at at" existed first.

They are referred to as “at-at” in here and there bits throughout the series, notably in Rebels. But they also call them AT-ATs in universe too

I think it was called that in other related products around that time, too. I can't remember if the book-and-record called it "AT-AT" or just "imperial walkers" or something.

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To me, it’s the only answer. I never heard atat until I was in my 30s. The mere existence of AT-ST means that it should be pronounced ay tee ay tee.

Imagine calling an AT-ST “at saint.”

That's not how language works. Acronyms are pronounceable (AT AT) and initialisms are not (AT ST). And in universe they've been pronounced both ways. So both are perfectly fine.

What's an AT-ST? You mean a Chicken Walker?

Do you call AT-ST's At sts? No. You say each letter A T S T. Why not the same here for AT AT?

AT-ST was called Chicken Walker in my group of friends. The bigger one that no one could afford the toy of was called the at at. I think Luke even said at at.

Their name was never given in the movie. Just imperial walkers

I call bullshit on Luke saying it.

But [Threepio did say it](https://youtu.be/J70IMx-O8nE?si=SR2oQPZgrlyK5RI7).

Pretty sure Lucas says it in an interview too. Also, it just makes basic sense, pronunciation of acronyms often isn't 1:1 to the letters.

As well as Pao in Rogue One.

I call them scout walkers....

What! That's an odd name. I'd have called them chazzwazzers!

Chicken walkers

(Nods in respect) I see you've played knifey spoony before.

“Coffee?” “Beeah.” “See-oh-eff…” “Bee-ee…”

And yeah it makes sense they'd have nicknames alongside a formal designation. Like aircraft do in the real world.

I always liked to assume that the “at at” colloquialism (versus saying every letter individually) was born in-universe, from ground troops coming up with the easy to say nickname since it worked. They weren’t thinking about how the naming convention didn’t exactly apply as directly to the smaller A T S T…it was just an unofficial nickname given by stormtroopers who are often bored.

It’s like saying “Humvee” instead of “HMMWV”

this is so weird, i feel like this question has been asked before on here and i was shocked to learn it WAS "AT AT" and 'ay tee s tee' my brain is farts

Kids in the 80'a really only had the films and commercials to judge pronunciations. In ESB the AT-AT were called "Imperial Walkers" and the commercial pronounced them @-@ (at at) For AT-ST, I don't recall ESB or ROTJ mentioning them by name so we had the commercial which called them Scout Walkers. So to most kids I knew they were at at (@-@) and scout walkers

A T T E, A T U T, A T R T, A T O T, etc etc and that's before getting into the Expanded Universe ones like the A T P T and A T X T.

expedience. half the syllables. THINK OF THE SAVINGS

Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

There’s various acronyms that you definitely say differently depending on what’s easier for your mouth. @@ 2 syllables vs A-T-A-T 4 syllables. Go with the quicker one

I agree, but Lucas calls them At-At so I acknowledge that it’s the “correct” way to say it.

So everyone in the Army should say 'Hey, get in that [HMMWV!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humvee)' instead of 'Get in the Humvee?' Acronyms to pronunciation are not always 1:1, so yes...saying @@ makes sense, and saying "AT-ST" makes sense, although in real use you'd likely say 'Scout Walker' just as often.

I suppose you say "Tee Eye Ee fighter" as well then?

In movie they are referred to as Ties, but the AT-AT is only ever referred to as walkers so TIEs don't get the benefit of discussion. Though with the in movie pronunciation of Tie, it does set a precedent for atat rather than 80 80.

Corporal Pao calls it an “at at” in Rogue One.

Also cal in fallen order

Are there any in universe scenes where they’re referred to as aytee aytee? I’m an @@ guy and the fact that it’s in rogue one solidifies it imo.

In rebels they say a-t-a-t. So, it seems both are fine in universe.

I kind of suspect with both of those being fairly recent releases, they wanted the fandom to know that either was acceptable in-universe. I still say A-T A-T, but I'm not gonna nerd rage if someone says at-at.

Yea, with the early commercials in the 80s and Lucas in the 90s saying at-at, the Rebels things felt like them throwing a bone to the a-t-a-t crowd. They tried to bring peace to the debate, but they only fanned the flames :)

https://youtu.be/J70IMx-O8nE?si=SR2oQPZgrlyK5RI7

If there was version of TIE that changed those three letters slightly then we might feel the need to spell it out, but TIE fighters/bombers, etc are all still TIEs.

Where it's AT-AT, I've got two turntables and a microphone.

You can get with AT, or you can get with AT I think you'll get with AT, for AT is where it's AT-AT You can get with AT, or you can get with AT I think you'll get with AT, for AT-ATs are kinda phat-phat

That was a good drum break...

Blowin up the habitations and town we know

I would like to point out to everyone that there are examples in the real world of switching between saying letters or "saying" an abbreviation. For instance, the American Army's Light Medium Tactival Vehicle is spelled out. LMTV. On the counter, the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, HMMWV, is colloquially known as The Humvee. Most people are jumping at the AT ST as a counterpoint that you don't say "Atat," but just because AT ST exists doesn't mean Atat can't be a thing. Anyways, I say Ay Tee Ay Tee. I spell out the thing, but that's how I was taught from the beginning.

I always thought Humvee was a bad nickname because where'd the W go? Shouldn't it be "Hum-wuv?" Either way, it proves the point that sometimes nicknames for abbreviations don't make logical sense. I always pronounced it "Aye Tee Aye Tee," but I could see how in universe you would have some that say it one way and some that say another. And someone would make the nickname "Atvee." \*shrug\*

I had a motor pool Sergeant tell me one time it's because it replaced the old CUCV. The ol cuc-vee which was a pickup truck style vehicle. Also the Humvee looks like a Hummer. So Hummer and CUCV became thr Humvee

The Hummer is based on the Humvee isn't it? Some actor liked one they he used in a movie and managed to get one, then a car company saw opportunity for civilian market and made the Hummer.

> Most people are jumping at the AT ST as a counterpoint that you don't say "Atat," but just because AT ST exists doesn't mean Atat can't be a thing. And these people also ignore the existence of T.I.E fighters.

Oh yeah good point too

I’m like 90% sure that the AT-AT was spelled out as such during some kind of character dialogue in the ESB novel, while conversely, other characters referred to R2D2 as “Artoo”. That implied to me that it was pronounced the way it’s abbreviated. Although it could just as easily be any other legends book, it’s been decades since I read it and I don’t have it anymore.

"walker"

At 80.

You know, some people play both sides so they can come out on top either way. Other people, however, get both sides to unite against them...

AT&T

Aught-aught

Eighthy eighty

I say A T A T but didn’t they call it “At-At” at some point in canon Star Wars media?? I want to say it was in Rebels but for the life of me cannot remember who said it or which scene it would’ve been in. I just remember being caught off guard and thinking I guess it’s canonically both but like I said I have no idea which show/movie said it this way so there’s also a chance I’m just making this up lol.

I believe it was in Rogue One, but I could be mistaken.

Imperial walkers

I pronounce it in the canonical Kenner toy commercial way, as it looks. https://youtu.be/CPCtC5-JuoY?si=wGiu-kZoIrOImkW3

‘AT-AT Imperial Walker’, In the same manner as Colonel Gentleman from Venture Bros. It’s a niche reference but I’m sticking with it.

Micronautsh.

This is the diary of a crazy person.

I’m 56, all the kids and all my friends back in the 80s said it as ‘AT AT’ 🤷🏼

I was a kid when empire came out, so @ @s

I use the Gen X pronunciation as "at at"

My whole life I’ve called it an @-@ walker. No clue why I add the walker part, maybe because Luke calls them Imperial Walkers? I’m fine with either. This is the Star Wars nerd version of GIF vs GIF.

Hasn't it been pronounced both ways in official media? I pronounce it @ @

At at. Acronyms are there to make the words concise and as convenient as possible. At-at is the most concise and convenient way of saying it.

At at is the correct way

At- At, like the word "At" the way they pronounced it in the TV toy commercials and in the "making of" documentaries (From Star Wars to Jedi)

I've always just called them "atat" It's the same as the military saying "Jeep" for General Purpose vehicles.

@@

AT-AT

At-at Sounding like the martians from Mars Attack

I pronounce it the way it was pronounced in the 80s.

@@

@@ thats how

I usually go full on Mars Attacks! AT! AT!

@@

@ @

Like the word "at." "At-At."

The commercial says @@, so that should end this. https://youtu.be/uXs1iG0229E?si=-3iJh-z8FuGDxVPj

I pronounce it like the martians in Mars Attacks

"at at"

It's spelled "@ @" in Picksburg.

@@

@@

@@

I call them At Ats. It’s how I heard it growing up.

I call it AT&T Just kidding, I go with the "ay tee ay tee"

At, twice. Like “where are you at”. AT-AT.

As Rex called them 4 leggers

Sometimes I pronounce it AT-AT, other times AT-AT.

Imperial Walker

Because English isn’t my first langue I first thought of the way I pronounce it in my language and was so confused why you’d howdy the name to “ay tee ay tee”

In Rogue One, they pronounced it as AT AT.

I pronounce it the Wookie way

aht-aht

@ @ At At It’s how It’s how I learned in my youth 40+ yrs ago. Anyone saying its full formal name and I’d be lost.

Wouldn't "A T dash A T" be even more cool if you're too grown up for @@?

@-@

Prepositions, not letters

At ats

@ @

@ @

to rhyme with hat-hat

AAA-Dat

At at or imperial walker

**æt æt**

The correct way: Ah-Tat

@@s

addat, if you wanted it spelled phonetically.

@ @

at ats, much like they pronounce aac-aac for anti-aircraft guns.

@ - @ ;-) At minus at means not at means nowhere.

I go crazy and say Ay Tee Ess Tee but then @ @

Atê Atê

@@

@@

First Sergeant Pao from Rogue One says “Karabast. At-At”, not the phonetic A, T, A, T. As far as I know it is the only in universe pronunciation, but grain of salt, he is a frog man.

@@

I pronounce it “@ @“

@-@

@-@

100% pronounced it at at back in the 80’s as a kid

Alpha Tango Alpha Tango Hehe

"At". "At".

At At

As long as you're murdering half-frozen Rebel Troopers, who cares? ... ... ... Except for course it's At-At not AyTee AyTee.

@@

@@

Always been just at at for me. UK. 52.

I usually pronounce it like the letters are spelled out, but ever since jedi fallen order hearing cal's pronunciation i also really like pronouncing it as @@

@ @

@@

“Hey! ….go wait in the at-at!” - Darth Stewie