Comment by adriand
I’m curious if anyone has heard an explanation for why Omarchy is pronounced “omar chee” instead of “omar key”. To me the word looks like monarchy, hierarchy, anarchy, etc. I’m not sure if words ending in -archy are always pronounced with a hard c but it seems like it.
> I’m not sure if words ending in -archy are always pronounced with a hard c but it seems like it.
When it is etymologically derived from the greek arkhein (“to rule”) like all of your examples (but unlike, say, “starchy”, which also ends with -archy but has an unrelated etymology), yes, the “ch” sounds like “k”.
But the “-archy” in “omarchy” doesn't come from arkhein, in comes from Arch Linux, so...