How do you pronounce 'gyro' (the sammich)?

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How do you pronounce 'gyro', the Greek sammich thingy?

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago | pl

    Guy-blow

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago | pl

    Gear-oh. I didn't know it was wrong until a few months ago. I'd rather say Year-oh, but my family would just look at me weird and tell me to stop being correct.

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  • dappled
    10 years ago | pl

    Yhee-roe (soft H... closer to yee-roe than hee-roe, but there's a tiny bit of H in it). The H is like the H in Ich Dien, a mild hissing sound.

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    • drugsrbadmkay
      10 years ago | pl

      Yes this is the proper way to pronounce it. But I pronounce it "jai row (as in gyroscope)" just to annoy people.

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      • dappled
        10 years ago | pl

        If there's one single tip I could give you in life, it would be:

        Never annoy the people who prepare your food.

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    • shuggy-chan
      10 years ago | pl

      In American I order it, and unless they are Greek, they never understand me -_-

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      • dappled
        10 years ago | pl

        Better doing it that way than the other way around and mispronouncing it to Greek people, Shugs. Well, unless you like man-juice in your food. :P

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago | pl

    Also sammich is pronounced (and spelled) sandwich.

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  • Avant-Garde
    10 years ago | pl

    Ghee-row or jai-row.

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  • robbieforgotpw
    10 years ago | pl

    Gee row not jee row

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  • kylecation21
    10 years ago | pl

    gear-row

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  • anti-hero
    10 years ago | pl

    Yee-row.

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