Guild Wars 2

Ory-chal kitten br /> Ory-kal kitten br /> Oreh-chal kitten br /> Oreh-kal kitten br /> Ochocinco

How do you personally pronounce it? I’ve heard countless variations and would like to hear yours as well.

Ori-kal-come

Ori-al kitten /p>

The ch is silent?

O – ree – kal – come

Ori chal miau……………

Attreyu.7301:

Ory-chal kitten
Ory-kal kitten
Oreh-chal kitten
Oreh-kal kitten
Ochocinco

How do you personally pronounce it? I’ve heard countless variations and would like to hear yours as well.

Totally laughing at how the last 3 letters become kittens. Lol.

Ory-chal-come is how I pronounce it, although I believe that’s actually incorrect. If memory serves, it’s actually “kal” instead of “chal”. Chal just rolls off the tongue easier.

The word has a Greek origin (oreikhalkos) , so the “ch” makes a sound like in “chaos” rather than in “chef” or in “chase”.

I personally break the syllables into “Or-i-kal-cuhm”

for the longest time i thought it was orichalum. so to this day, i most probs still pronounce it as “ory-ka-lum”

Ori-talcum

Ori-chalk kitten /p>

Oreekalkoom, because I did Greek and Latin, so I know that “um” is “oom” and not “ome”.

orr-ee-kalkoom
^
heh, nice pun there ANet

I remember learning about it on the discovery channel on a show about ancient
greece, it was a real alloy, but nobody knows the exact formula anymore

I pronounce it oree-chal-come

Proper way is: oree-kal-koom

I pronounce it the way it’s written.

It’s a word that originates from classic greek. If you know how to read ??, you can pronounce orichalcum.

EDIT that didn’t work out right. See here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82&aq=0&oq=%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%87&aqs=chrome.1.57j0l3.66355&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Nachtz.4930:

Oreekalkoom, because I did Greek and Latin, so I know that “um” is “oom” and not “ome”.

Finally another noble soul who knows how it’s pronounced.

ori-cal-koom is what I say after I got curious enough to look it up and have a computer say it for me.

before that I said or-a-ku-lum because I transpose letters and it sounded cooler.

usually I just say “ori ore!”

I try not to.

“Ori,” (or-ee) seems to work just fine.

Orr-EE-chal-come

It’s been in several video games over the years.

Calcifire.1864:

orr-ee-kalkoom
^
heh, nice pun there ANet

I remember learning about it on the discovery channel on a show about ancient
greece, it was a real alloy, but nobody knows the exact formula anymore

I find it very humorous that we are running around mining raw lumps of “alloy”.

Skar Hand.5037:

Calcifire.1864:

orr-ee-kalkoom
^
heh, nice pun there ANet

I remember learning about it on the discovery channel on a show about ancient
greece, it was a real alloy, but nobody knows the exact formula anymore

I find it very humorous that we are running around mining raw lumps of “alloy”.

I find it even more humorous that we mine “gold ore” :P
(seriously ANet, wouldn’t it have made more sense to have let us mine gold nuggets and compress them into ingots?)

awr-i-kal-kuhm

As others have noted, it’s a “real word”, not made up for the game, and so can be looked up easily enough in a good dictionary.

my guild and i just say Ori Ore at this point lol

I just say/write Orchie or Ori.

Ori reminds me of SG1 season 10.

Iehova.9518:

Nachtz.4930:

Oreekalkoom, because I did Greek and Latin, so I know that “um” is “oom” and not “ome”.

Finally another noble soul who knows how it’s pronounced.

I’m going to make a serious attempt to start pronouncing it this way. Didn’t know about the “oom” portion.

On a somewhat related note, how does everyone pronounce “mithril”? Is it “myth-ril” or “me-thril”? Or even “my-thrill” as I’ve heard someone pronounce it once.

Ori and Ori nodes. That’s the easiest way to say it in voice chat.

Ori-Kowl-Come

‘message body length must be 15’

oree-tshal-kuuum

Darx.9842:

Orr-EE-chal-come

It’s been in several video games over the years.

“um” is “oom”, not “ome”.

The lack of classic education in this thread hurts.

Everyone should know that -um is pronounced “oom”. It’s not even debatable.

The word Orichalcum is Latin, derived from the Greek oreikhalkos.
In Latin Orichalcum is pronounced: orikal’k-m (- is u → forum profanity filter)
For italian and spanish people this should not be a problem to read it correctly
For other languages people: O-Ree-kal-koom
Remember that “ee” is not a long one, the “i” in “Oricalchum” is long as the “i” in “Ship” or “Sit” (same for “oo”)

I’ve decided to start saying it while holding my tongue. =P

(many of you are now trying this, mwahah!)

Ore – Rick – Cal – Come

Let’s all just call it orange ….. so much easier

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/orichalcum

So the audio seems to pronounce it O-ri-kal-come (not koom). Is there some controversy about how to pronounce this syllable among academics?

Or-Ree-Chal-Sum..

While I usually respect convention, I will always pronounce it as ‘Or-ee-helk-um’.
I first heard the term in Slayers and it will always stick with me.

Oxford Dictionaries

http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/pronounce/american_english/orichalcum

Pronunciation for orichalcum
Pronunciation: öri – kalkem

If you want to listen from google translate…

http://translate.google.com/#en/la/orichalcum

Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orichalcum

Overview

The name derives from the Greek ??, oreikhalkos (from ??, oros, mountain and ????, chalkos, copper or bronze), meaning “mountain copper” or “mountain metal.” The Romans transliterated “orichalcum” as “aurichalcum,” which was thought to literally mean “gold copper.” It is known from the writings of Cicero that the metal they called orichalcum, while it resembled gold in colour, had a much lower value. Orichalcum has variously been held to be a gold/copper alloy, a copper-tin or copper-zinc brass, or a metal no longer known. The Andean alloy tumbaga fits the same description, being a gold/copper alloy. However, in Vergil’s Aeneid it was mentioned that the breastplate of Turnus was “stiff with gold and white orachalc” and it has been theorised that it is an alloy of gold and silver, though it is not known for certain what orichalcum was. In later years, “orichalcum” was used to describe the sulfide mineral chalcopyrite or brass. However, these are difficult to reconcile with the text of Critias, because he states that the metal was “only a name” by his time, while brass and chalcopyrite continued to be very important through the time of Plato until today. For that reason, other authors on the subject[who?] conclude that orichalcum is either the gold-copper alloy tumbaga, or possibly amber.

Ancient literature

Orichalcum is first mentioned in the 7th century BC by Hesiod and in the homeric hymn dedicated to Aphrodite, dated to the 630s. According to the Critias by Plato, the three outer walls of the Temple to Poseidon and Cleito on Atlantis were clad respectively with brass, tin, and the third, which encompassed the whole citadel, “flashed with the red light of orichalcum.” The interior walls, pillars and floors of the temple were completely covered in orichalcum, and the roof was variegated with gold, silver, and orichalcum. In the center of the temple stood a pillar of orichalcum, on which the laws of Poseidon and records of the first princes after Poseidon were inscribed. (Crit. 116–119) Orichalcum is also mentioned in the Antiquities of the Jews – Book VIII, sect. 88 by Josephus, who stated that the vessels in the Temple of Solomon were made of orichalcum (or a bronze that was like gold in beauty). Pliny the Elder points out that the metal has lost currency due to the mines being exhausted. Pseudo-Aristotle in De mirabilibus auscultationibus describes orichalcum as a shining metal obtained during the smelting of copper with the addition of “calmia,” a kind of earth formerly found on the shores of the Black Sea.

I’unno, a friend pronounced it like Ori-kali-um so it’s kinda stuck to me too xd

I just leave the first “c” out, so it’s like:

ori – halcum

Might as well callt it ‘Orgie-calculus’.

I hope I won’t get infracted – I just had to for the lols.

Ori-hal kitten /p>

I dunno, just how I do it.

I know it isn’t correct, but it got stuck in my head as ore-RICK-ulum. I like it better than the correct way, so I’m keeping it. Texans have a propensity for doing that sort of thing :P

Orr-rich-uh-lumb. The c is silent.

I also pronounce trebuchet trech-bucket.

I just have to jump in and add my guilds nonsensical way of saying it:

Ori-LAK-rium yeah we just moved all the sounds around.

This is a very fun thread, especially because of the profanity filter. Lol!

I believe its O-ree-kal kitten

Edit : Looks like the kitten got me too!

I find that I often pronounce it as ori-chil-acum even though it’s not even spelled that way.

marnick.4305:

The lack of classic education in this thread hurts.

Everyone should know that -um is pronounced “oom”. It’s not even debatable.

Perhaps not in Greek, which is not the language used here or in game, but thanks for the faux intellectualism.

Greek roots are not the same as their counterparts once borrowed into a foreign language. English speakers wouldn’t say orichalcoom for the same reason they don’t say platinoom. These words once brought into English are pronounced by English speakers using English customs, i.e. anglicization.

Ore-eh-kal-come

Oreh-chal-come

:O