How do you pronounce 'orche'?

[Lugnut64052]

Originally Posted by mbgmike

how do you say Fuscia

Few-shuh

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Brock

Brett Favre is from the south, I bet he often eats okra, he might even have an Ochre colored truck. If he cut down Oak trees does that make him an Oaker? Ok I'm done now...By the way anybody see the Bob Ross when he had the squirrel in is shirt pocket while he painted, now thats talent!!!

Now that's a name that throws me off. How the heck do you get "Farv" outta that when the "V" is in front of the "R"???? Maybe we should be pronouncing ochre as "ORK"!!

It doesn't matter where you live,it's pronounced oak-er. The dang word is French,fer cryin' out loud! I'd just start saying it the right way rather than boast how I've always said it wrong. Those of you who say it wrong now can say you leaned something here. I'm not trying to make waves here,but it's just plain that simple. There's only one way to say ochre.

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

[ls1nova71]

Originally Posted by oldblue1968chevy

How do YOU pronounce it

Originally Posted by special-K

I'm not trying to make waves here,but it's just plain that simple. There's only one way to say ochre.

Well the OP specifically asked "how do YOU pronounce it". Just saying....

[Shane]

Originally Posted by special-K

Now that's a name that throws me off. How the heck do you get "Farv" outta that when the "V" is in front of the "R"???? Maybe we should be pronouncing ochre as "ORK"!!

It doesn't matter where you live,it's pronounced oak-er. The dang word is French,fer cryin' out loud! I'd just start saying it the right way rather than boast how I've always said it wrong. Those of you who say it wrong now can say you leaned something here. I'm not trying to make waves here,but it's just plain that simple. There's only one way to say ochre.

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

The OP didn't ask for correct pronunciation, he asked how each person here pronounces it.

Your OPINION is noted.

[sameyrasmea72]

With all the confusion going on here, I am going to start calling it what I did before I found this site 8 years ago. MUSTARD. and just for the heck of it, I am going to start calling a short fleet bed a SHORT WIDE BED, like I have been doing for the previous 20 years brfore this site.

[special-K]

Thanks guys for pointing out what the OP asked (and I already realized that). The point I was making is,now that anyone who pronounced it wrong before reading this thread,now knows the correct way and don't have any reason to pronounce it wrong.

[eightbanger]

Originally Posted by sameyrasmea72

With all the confusion going on here, I am going to start calling it what I did before I found this site 8 years ago. MUSTARD.

Ahh, you mean Moutarde...

[sameyrasmea72]

Originally Posted by eightbanger

Ahh, you mean Moutarde...

[C20-67_N_MO]

Originally Posted by eightbanger

Ahh, you mean Moutarde...

Good fun thread!

I actually had no idea how to pronouce that colour until I read this thread.

So yeah I guess I did learn something today.

Thank you!

[long69]

there is no way to say which is the correct way- it depends on where you are, or are you wearing depends. i say that if whom ever your talking to understands what your talking about then you pronounced it correct.
fyi --in the west coast navy in the early '70s it was pronounced oak-rah, and they served it often enough that even if you didn't know about it (me) you quickly lernt how to say it. i submit that oaker is the way that SOME (not all) people pronounce it and that they have a habit of putting an R at the end of words that don't have an R at the end. my wifes name is linda and it is fairly common to here people pronounce it linder.

[faribran]

(the funky green vegtable people eat esp in the south, usually fried)? i like it BOILED... slimeeeee !!

[BlackTopMotors]

I thought it was o-kra never heard it called oker...guess that's why I'm here.
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[Shane]

how about this ... who cares how you say it ... we will all know what you mean anyway.

[mbgmike]

I never knew until this thread. If some told me they had a orche colored truck i would have said Gee thats too bad. It was a fun thread however. At least for me. I went to west virginia a long time ago and asked for a Reese Cup. She looked at me and said " do you mean a REE C cup???" I said yes.

[MrGoodpliers]

It's Oh-kerr, but if I'm feeling particularly southern, sometimes I call it okry.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by eightbanger

Ahh, you mean Moutarde...

Wouldn't that be Moutadre?

[mrein3]

Originally Posted by mbgmike

I never knew until this thread. If some told me they had a orche colored truck i would have said Gee thats too bad. It was a fun thread however. At least for me. I went to west virginia a long time ago and asked for a Reese Cup. She looked at me and said " do you mean a REE C cup???" I said yes.

I did a three month stint in Phoenix about 10 years ago. A few weeks into it my brother and his wife were flying in to Vegas. They suggested I drive up over the weekend to party er I mean visit with them.

So I go to a gas station and ask for a map of Nevada.
A nice older lady says - A map of WHAT?
Nevada. The next state over.
Oh you mean Na-VAH-da.
OK. Na-VAH-da.
Nope. Don't have one.

I see a station across the street. All you Phonecians know what driving is like there so rather than a 15 minute drive I took a 5 minute walk across the street.

You have a map of Nevada?
You mean Na-VAH-da?
Yes. Na-VAH-da.
Yup.

The only other place I hear folks say Na-VAH-da is the high-brow east coast national news folks.

[bollybib]

fueled by orche (sic), we seem to have.,,...,ochre okra orca .,,..,hmm,.., The orca ate the ochre okra ?

...later in the day as i ponder this wonderful thread..how about

" The ochre orca ate okra. " ?

or...if this sickly looking whale went to a Southern eatery possibly " The ochre orca ordered okra ".
( try saying THAT three times fast )

[(please no booing or hissing)]

[DANTIP]

"Mustard"

[Zoomin]

I see the funniest look in the eyes of those who ask about the color of my truck, and I say ochre. Especially if the truck is not there.

It saves a lot of time to say 'mustard'
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[special-K]

Mustard and ochre don't even taste the same...I mean okra. (or oak-ree in parts of the South)

[bollybib]

Can you refer to a truck with a wood bed an "oaker" ?
And if so, & it were also that nice mustard color, as an " ochre oaker " ???

(my apologies once again)

[SulphuriousSam]

Before somebody posted the definition I would have told you Ochre (Oak-er) is red! I've lived on both coasts and now in the middle of these United States and never heard it pronounced...ever. I only ever read the word in books haha!

[1972RedNeck]

Yellerish

[da-burb]

Late to the party as usual. Oak-er or Oh-ker work for me. I find that one or two swift kicks to the shins usually cures someone of calling it okra or any of the other incorrect pronunciations. I affectionately call the color "Squash baby poop yellow"..btw, Shrek was an Ogre and green like okra and doesn't look anything at all like 71-72 GM OCHRE.