the greek food gyro is kinda pronounced "yee-ro"
Comment on XKCD #2819: Pronunciation
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I didnt know gyro could be pronunced in multiple ways
stringbeantheory@kbin.social 1 year ago
Comment on XKCD #2819: Pronunciation
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I didnt know gyro could be pronunced in multiple ways
the greek food gyro is kinda pronounced "yee-ro"
Skua@kbin.social 1 year ago
There's gyro as in gyroscope, where the Y vowel sound is like the word "eye", and there's gyro as in the Greek sandwich where the Y vowel is more like the vowel sound in "sea". The latter is often seen only as "gyros" because that's what the actual Greek word is, but because that seems like a plural in English the S is sometimes dropped.