Mark Hamill Settles Long-Running Star Wars Debate With True Story From The Set

It may not be the biggest debate in the galaxy, but plenty of “Star Wars ” fans have wondered over the years: How, exactly, do you pronounce “AT-AT”? 

Is it like @-@? Or do you say each letter, A-T-A-T? 

Screen icon Mark Hamill offered some help after the official Twitter account for the storied franchise recently joked about the imperial walkers with a poll in which the answer was “AT-AT” either way:

The tweet drew thousands of replies and retweets, with writer Tara Dublin asking Hamill for his take: 

But Hamill wasn’t done. 

He added another message, and briefly pinned it to his profile, indicating that there may not be a right answer to any of the names and pronunciations and said that comes straight from creator George Lucas :

The franchise has embraced Lucas’ vision in this regard. 

As Screen Rant noted in 2020 , longtime Lucasfilm insider Dave Filoni spoke out on the topic at a Star Wars event in 2016.

“You can say at-at, you can say A-T-A-T, and you can say walker. I’m for all three,” he was quoted as saying. “That’s canon because in [“The Clone Wars”] I have imperials say walkers, I have them say at-at, and I have them say A-T-A-T.”