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Now I understand that yatta means something along the lines of "all right" or "I did it", so I get it if the name is supposed to be Yattaman, but does Yatter have any kind of meaning? Which one is it technically supposed to be?

'Yatta' of course. The only way it would sound like 'yatter' is if you speak with an American accent.

I think you mean English accent. When Americans say America it ends in -kuh and an Englishman might say something more like -Ker. It isn't quite as harsh though, it sort of an implied "r" sound, not a hard one. Somebody from across the pond, please, am I getting this right. (By the way, this is information I gathered from listening to the BBC World Report on NPR"

Hmm, yes, you're right. I was thinking of the American pronunciation of words ending in -er, which would also become -uh.
I think the British (Commonwealth?) pronunciation -er (of words ending in -a) only occurs when the next words starts with a vowel.
Continental Europeans would tend to pronounce -a as -a anyway.

Whenever I watch the show,whether the remake or clips from the 70s series,in-show they spell it yatter.

Maybe it's like misspelling 'senpai' as 'sempai'?

Kimiko_0 wrote:

Maybe it's like misspelling 'senpai' as 'sempai'?

Your example is not a misspelling.

Hepburn romanization @ Wikipedia wrote:

In traditional Hepburn:

* Syllabic n (ん) is written as n before consonants, but as n' (with an apostrophe) before vowels and y. It is written as m before other labial consonants, i.e. b, m, and p.

Examples: annai 案内, kin'en 禁煙, gumma 群馬