How do you pronounce Ogryn?

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**cammy**

og-rin
ki mare ra
al-u-min-ium

**Grimskul**

OH-henry

**Smokeydubbs**

shade1313 wrote:
I used to play with someone who insisted on pronouncing Wyches like "Why-ches".

I did that too. Mainly because I knew of a last name that is Wyche, pronounced Why-ch. Then someone told me the DE things are "witches". I went with it.

**Jimsolo**

Ailaros wrote:
lol.

So, I live in Champaign, IL, which is right on the linguistic border between north and south, and it's kind of interesting. You go to a Hardees, for example, but they have southern accents. You'll hear someone talking in a midwestern accent, but then you'll get a "warsh" or an "AI-talian".

This translates to my FLGS as well. I've heard ogryn pronounced both ways, as well as a bunch of other stuff (khim-era vs. Ch-im-era, for example).

Holy crap, we're way closer than I thought. I didn't even know there was a place to play in Champaign.

**BrotherVord**

Oh-grin.

Dawn of War made it so.

**Avatar 720**

OH-gur-in.
KYE-mare-uh
PRESS-see-unce.
Zeentch.
CAT-uh-can.
COLL-ee-flower.
BUR-gur.

**nwabudikemorgan**

I've always said Aw-grin, and everyone up here that I've heard say it says it that way as well. Looks like the northern USA pattern continues up into Canada.

**-Shrike-**

Og-rin.
Khi-mere-a.
Pres-ee-unce.
Tz-eentch.
Cat-a-can.
Brit-ish.

Avatar 720 wrote:
OH-gur-in.
KYE-mare-uh
PRESS-see-unce.
Zeentch.
CAT-uh-can.
COLL-ee-flower.
BUR-gur.

Honestly, I don't understand how you can get to that.

**Scipio Africanus**

Happyjew wrote:
I've always pronounced it Ah-grin (first part sounds like the start of father).

You're just using your new yorker slant.

We personally pronounce Ogryn as "overpriced".

**Iron_Captain**

ˈəʊɡrɪn

I pronounce it like əɡrɨn , but that is because I am weird.
Most Dutch people pronounce it oːɡrɪn

**tommse**

Damn that preshence thingy really hit me hard. I always felt so smart for calling it pre-science, as I have a soft spot for etymology. Double-checked it in a dictionary and now I have a new favorite word.

**Skinnereal**

Ogryn: Ogg-grin. I know about the Oh-gah (Ogre) origin, but Oh-grin doesn't sound right.
Chimera is a word from centuries ago, and I've always heard it as Ky-meerah.
Prescience: Press-see-ence.
Griffon: Griff-fun

**-Shrike-**

Skinnereal wrote:
Ogryn: Ogg-grin. I know about the Oh-gah (Ogre) origin, but Oh-grin doesn't sound right.
Chimera is a word from centuries ago, and I've always heard it as Ky-meerah.
Prescience: Press-see-ence.
Griffon: Griff-fun

See, what's interesting to me is that only us Brits seem to pronounce Ogryn like that. How peculiar...

**deviantduck**

Happyjew wrote:
deviantduck wrote:
s long as you say soda and not pop you're ok in my book.

I call it soda pop.

you are some sort of radical hybrid heretic.

Ky-mere-uh, since crabs and nids are covered in ky-tun-us armor.
Webster says preshy-unce or pressy-unce. I go with the latter because it sounds more haughty and smug. I've never heard anyone call it pre-science, although that makes the most shence.
and Oh-grin, because i say Oh-gur. Did you see those hobbits kill that Awgur! Sounds weird.

**R3YNO**

I called the Awe-grins, but my brother has been calling them Oh-grins. Makes more sense as they are Ogres. Slowly adjusting to the "proper" pronunciation but I let a few awe-grins slip.