A cute bit of Star Wars trivia that has circulated over the years claims Ewan McGregor couldn’t stop making the electrical drone of the fictional weapon while filming his lightsaber fights in Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

It’s an anecdote that McGregor gets asked about quite a bit. He doesn’t definitively confirm or deny it, like in this 2011 clip from The Graham Norton Show.

McGregor does state a basic truth about the weapon of choice for Jedi and Sith lords: Human beings can’t help themselves from making a lightsaber’s crackle-and-buzz sound effects whenever they get their hands around anything resembling one.

Now that “pew, pew, pew” has become universally accepted as onomatopoeia for laser guns, it’s clear society needs to standardized how we verbally express the noise a lightsaber generates. Fortunately, user hkh25 went to the Ask Reddit community to survey how other redditors spell out the sound this elegant weapon for a more civilized age makes. Users then made sure to provide examples representing a variety of lightsaber actions.

Upvoted picked a few suggestions from the comments thread to spotlight. That’s, of course, after saying them out loud a few times to see how they sounded.

Lightsaber Ignition

— Reddit user literallymagic

Two Lightsabers Clashing Together

— Reddit user literallymagic.

Lightsaber Swinging Through the Air

— Reddit user scareghost89

Lightsaber Dropped on a Metal Floor

— Reddit user literallymagic

Mace Windu’s Lightsaber

— Reddit user ttufizzo

(Here’s the extra context needed for this Samuel L. Jackson reference.)

Think there’s a better way to spell out these sounds? Check out more suggestions—or add your own—at the original post in the Ask Reddit community.