Poll: How do you pronounce gyro (the sandwich) ?

[Beller0ph1]

Anyone ever take Greek? It would be interesting to hear how a native or someone close to it would say. I picked HEE-RO since its the closest to what I hear. I took a little Greek in high school and I think that there is a "hard breath" at the beginning of the word. Who knows, I could be way wrong.

 

[matt426malm]

voted year-row I say yur-row

 

[CChaos]

Year-ro and yee-ro are different how?

 

[SWirth86]

hjee-ro kind of like hee-ro, but not a regular 'h' sound

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: Beller0ph1
Anyone ever take Greek? It would be interesting to hear how a native or someone close to it would say. I picked HEE-RO since its the closest to what I hear. I took a little Greek in high school and I think that there is a "hard breath" at the beginning of the word. Who knows, I could be way wrong.

I think you're correct. I think it's a cross between the H and Y sounds. Exhale quickly and softly before the Y sound. It almost sounds like HYEE-ro.

It probably depends on who you're speaking to and how lazy they were that day.

 

[tk149]

Darn you! I'm hungry now. :|