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Orca or Killer Whale?

Which name do you like better?

  • Orca

    Votes: 30 63.8%

  • Killer Whale

    Votes: 17 36.2%
  • Total voters
    47
Everyone does, so you kinda sound pretentious if you call them orcas.
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What ?_? most people I know who speak English say orca, and it's never struck me as pretentious (plus I also know many people who say horse chestnuts?).
 
I've never even heard of 'orca'. @_@

So yeah, killer whale. Besides, I always thought that name sounded really awesome.
 
Maybe it's a regional thing; I mean a few people on here said that they've never heard anyone say "orca" and a couple more say they use "killer whale" simply because that way it won't confuse people.

But "Let's play horse chestnuts!"? I can't imagine anywhere where that wouldn't sound stupid XD
 
I'm pretty sure I'd get strange looks from everyone over the age of 6 if I said "killer whale".
Also a conker is only a conker if it's being used to conk.
 
You know that orcas are called killer whales because they're known to attack and seperate a whale from its pod, normally younger ones, well, kill them >: (You can tell that I watch National Geographic too often.) Some marine mammals are very sickening in their behavior, and I'd rather not go into detail.

That all said I prefer the term orca, as to killer whale, because I'm just sort of used to it.
 
I like the name orca better, but I useally call them killer whales because that's what everyone else around here calls them.

Weird, orca is not in Firefox's dictionary.
 
Killer whale. I learned that The World sent Orca into a coma before I learned that orca referred to the same thing as killer whale. Besides, killer whale sounds like 'common folks' language, whereas orca sounds closer to snooty talk. Which is fine if I need to sound scientifically snooty.
 
I usually call then Killer Whales, mainly because people probably won't know what I'm talking about if I say "Orcas". I prefer Orca though, because orcas are not whales.
 
They are not killers.
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Uh hello, they're carnivores. Go sit in a Killer Whale's mouth and tell me they aren't killers.

Uh, Killer Whale. I always figured 'Orca' was an American thing (nobody says 'Orca' in Australia) but I guess not. Besides, 'Orca' sounds like a bird call or something.


OR-CA! OR-CAAAA!
 
I've literally only seen a Killer Whale called Orca in a little kids book, where it was also saying how it was a whale and how it kills lots of things, like seals, squids, and even turtles, sea birds and other whales.

And how are Killer Whales not Whales? o_O

(Why do I always remember these things later?)
 
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