Ork or Orc?????

[EightGaugeHippo]

There are people who spell it Ork??? I had no idea.

 

[McShizzle]

Ork in my native tongue, Orc in everything else. Of course, where does Orque fall?

An "Orque" is a snooty type of Orc that enjoys baguettes and "escargot" instead of regular old snails.

 

[PrinceofPersia]

Well I know I'm probably opening the flood gates here but...

Do you say Ork or Orc??

And before you ask there is a difference.

Ork is mostly from 40K. the space faring brutes that live for WAAAAGH, who MADE FER FIGHTN' AND WINNIN'

and Orc is from WoW and Tolkenesk fantasy (LOTR).

So, what do you say?

Either one really it is a fictional creature spell it however you want. I like Orka myself.

 

[Chorionicstu]

its Ork
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

Contrary to most people I prefer Ork.

Just sounds more guttural - like they'd pronounce it.

It fits them better in my head.

 

[The Fork of Truth]

There are people who spell it Ork??? I had no idea.

Only when referring to the species of space-faring orcs from Warhammer 40,000, who have a tendency to switch c's to k's when they speak.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

I go with Orc usually.

 

[Foobula]

Orks are cooler.

 

[ninjajoeman]

we put an orc in your ork so you could shoot orks in space while you tolkened your orc.

I like ork.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

I don't like the look of that K, as far as I'm concerned, it's Orc.

 

[CRoone]

Ork for Shadowrun or Warhammer 40k, Orc for the medieval/fantasy variants. Orck for everything else (either the C or the K is silent, and I'm not sure which).

 

[FollowUp]

It depends on what kind of orc/k. Sci fi space orks are different species than fantasy orcs

 

[Galaxy613]

C's are the most useless kharakter in our alphabet. They kan easily be replased with "S" and "K" without any khange in how they sound. Thus, I would go with Ork. But it frankly doesn't matter because English throws out all good rules of language anyways.

 

[One of Many]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[mgs16925]

I don't really buy that they sound different. Well, unless you do the accent (Orks is made fer fightin')

 

[ThreeWords]

Ork in my native tongue, Orc in everything else. Of course, where does Orque fall?

From now on, Orque

As for before this momentous occasion, I said Ork or Orc as it suited the context

 

[Knight of Cydonia]

Orc, i'm a WoW fanboy at heart.

 

[Requx]

Me being an expert in orc (because orcs are awesome and win at everything) know that your common orc will have him/her reffered to as an orc.