Talk:Day 171-180/@comment-4784862-20150514223447/@comment-4784862-20150515181321

They're not pronounced the same phonetically in english, though.

Oro would be a short "O", while Auro would be more like a drawn out "O"

The katakana also has a drawn out "O" in it, so it seems more accurate in general given that reasoning.

If this were going from Japanese to Italian instead of Japanese to English, for example, "Oro" might suit it better (I'm not sure how the Italians pronounce their vowels and whatnot =p..but since their word for Gold "Oro" is derived from Latin's "Aurum"...).

Romanizations are always an approximation, though.