Let's have a flamewar: correct pronunciation of the Greek sandwich "gyro".

[Rabrrrrrr]

gee-roe
jee-roe
hee-roe
yee-roe

ji*-roe
hi-roe
gi-roe
yi-roe


geer-oe
jeer-oe
heer-oe
yeer-oe

jir*-oe
hir-oe
gir-oe
yir-oe



(* long "i" sound as in high, nigh, sky)

Which is it?

Argument beings....... NOW!

[suninvited]

1. gi-roe

but, what do I know. I am from Texas.

[SCantiGOP]

17. ge (as in gear) row

nt

[MrScorpio]

2. Hee-Roe

Like they say in Detroit's Greektown

Jy-Roe, outside of it

[supernova]

3. Hero

or more accurately "Heeyro"

So say the Greek immigrants all over NC and whose food I slavishly devour at every opportunity.

:9 :D

[NJmaverick]

4. I think I have heard it pronounced hi-roe

by the Greeks, but it's been so long I can't say for sure.

[rug]

5. Never mind that. How do you pronounce Rabrrrrrr?

[LaurenG]

6. It's gee-roe and you sort of roll the r.

Why how do you pronounce it?

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. I change my pronunciation each time, since I've heard it pretty much every of those ways

and no one seems able to actually agree on how to pronounce it, not even the Greeks.

[bif]

7. I pronounce it JY-ro

Just to bug the Greek waiters.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. bla-GOY-e-vich

:-)

[Vidar]

10. yeer-oe

[conscious evolution]

11. All of the Greeks in

the nieghborhood I grew up in pronounced it like that.

[redqueen]

12. yeer-oe

Why not use 'oh' instead of 'oe'?

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Want to start a flame war over "oe" versus "oh"?

:rofl:

[redqueen]

14. Yes, I'd prefer that thanks.

:)

Also, I changed my mind... it's gotta be yeer-oh. The root word starts with a y I think, so... that makes more sense. Whatever you call them they're one of the best sandwiches ever IMO. But... are they techincally a sandwich?

[charlie and algernon]

15. now I want whatever you call it for dinner tonight

[arbusto_baboso]

16. It's pronounced "frank".

And the middle "Q" is silent.

[Ikonoklast]

30. Ha! What do you know!

Everyone knows that 'gyro' is pronounced 'Fred'.

And since there is only one 'Q' in 'Fred', it is always annunciated.

[arbusto_baboso]

34. Wait, we might both be wrong.

In this case, by "gyro", did the OP mean "autogyro"??? If so, then we're both wrong and it's actually pronounced "farfoofle". Damn, I'm embarassed I didn't realize this sooner.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

18. yir-oe............

ji*-roe always bugged be.

[cherish44]

19. YAIR-oh

In college we'd order gyros with cheese fries and the Greek guy on the other end of the phone would always repeat..."Yairo-cheese fry?" We wrote a song about it and everything. Unforuntately the master tape was lost and it's gone forever. Shame it would have been up there with Stairway to Heaven and Free Bird :(

[nuxvomica]

20. It's definitely pronounced "Ghee-rho"

And you will like the sauce. The sauce is good, no?

[Mojambo]

21. I've always said "Eeeeer-Roe"

[Initech]

22. It's prounced "tasty deliciousness".

I do love those sandwiches.

[mwooldri]

23. I prefer the Donner Kebab myself.

Similar but not necessarily Greek.

Or is it Doner Kebab?

[redqueen]

27. Not sure but I think it's Doner.

Haven't tried that yet.

[Ikonoklast]

36. 'Donner' Kebab ?

Isn't that made from...people?

:scared:


Note to self: Pass on any dinner invites from the mwooldri residence.

[mwooldri]

41. Nope, it's not the Donna Kebab or the Donor Kebab.

Doner Kebab as corrected earlier.



Basically Gyro is Greek, Doner Kebab is Turkish.

Mark.

[Kali]

38. heh

like tzaziki - jejuk
ouzo - raki
two parts to Cyprus
etc, etc

[Fire Walk With Me]

24. Throat Warbler Mangrove?

[redqueen]

28. ...

:thumbsup:

[Crabby Appleton]

25. yi-roe nt

[grace0418]

26. *SHUDDER* I'm Greek and I hate it when I hear GEAR-oh or JYE-ro. YEE-ro. It's YEE-ro.

I don't see why there must be an argument though. There is a correct way to pronounce words and it just needs to be clarified, especially foreign words. Once that's done, it's a matter of just pronouncing it correctly.

[surrealAmerican]

29. This is one of those regional things.

The "right way" to pronounce it in New York (yee-roh) is different from the "right way" to pronounce it in Chicago (gee-roh).

[kath]

35. wrong - the right way is the one that the person of Greek heritage gave just above.

starts w/ a "Y" sound, NEVER a hard "g".
Like the word "year" w/ an "o" on the end. Or maybe kind of half-way between that and "yee-ro" -- the long "ee" sound is softened a bit, I believe.

And I first encountered them in Chicago, FWIW, and knew the right way to pronounce from the get-go.

[sakabatou]

31. The same as you would pronounce "Hero"

Like the show, "Heroes."

[MorningGlow]

32. Wrap. n/t

[Adsos Letter]

33. Sand ' which

[Iggo]

37. Throatwarbler Mangrove.

[SoxFan]

39. Yi-row

[stray cat]

40. yeer-oe

at least if you are arabic, turkish or greek. Nyers say gy-roe but I don't know where that comes from

[ornotna]

42. Like this

sammich ...... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Gyros.ogg

[Odin2005]

43. The different pronunciations are because that "g" is a sound English doesn't have.

In modern Greek the letter Gamma is pronounced like the German "ch" except that it is voiced.

[applegrove]

44. Donair!!!

[rcrush]

45. Clown Penis