NBNR: pronounce gyro :D

didobas · June 2013

I'm watching Chopped, and everyone is pronouncing gyro differently: GUYro, GHEEro, GEEro, GIro... how do you say it? I honestly have no clue...

g8trkim · June 2013

It's not Guy-ro or Juy-ro which is what I hear a lot. In Greece, it sounds like kind of a long E sound but with a more elegant tongue roll sort of thing... if that makes sense. I was always super paranoid ordering them in Greece.

KELLILOVESJOSH · June 2013

g8trkim:
It's not Guyro or Juyro which is what I hear a lot. In Greece, it sounds like kind of a long E sound but with a more elegant tongue roll sort of thing... if that makes sense. I was always super paranoid ordering them in Greece.

Yep that well at least that's what my Greek friends call them. Mmm now I want one haha

everchangingcycles · June 2013

Not sure how to type out how it sounds, but I'll try.

Shzeer-oh. Or, if you're at all familiar with Scandinavian pronunciations, it'd look more like Skjeero, maybe.

didobas · June 2013

everchangingcycles:
Not sure how to type out how it sounds, but I'll try.Shzeeroh. Or, if you're at all familiar withnbsp;Scandinaviannbsp;pronunciations, it'd look more like Skjeero, maybe.

Is it close to jeer at all?

Dr.Loretta · June 2013

I pronounce it more like Hero, because that's what my Greek XBF told me to do

momtobe1028 · June 2013

I work in a Greek owned restaurant ... Its YeerOh

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queenbone · June 2013

Yer O

As in "Is them yer shoes on tha floor?"

didobas · June 2013

Awesome: it means that not one out of 8 food industry people on the show, incl. the host, judges, and contestants, knew how to say it right ;p

oliversbear · June 2013

I say jeer-oh (like jeer, mocking something).

DH (and most of the Greek-Australians I know) say it Gere-oh (like Richard Gere).

Meery82 · June 2013

Yeero

everchangingcycles · June 2013

didobas:
everchangingcycles:
Not sure how to type out how it sounds, but I'll try.Shzeeroh. Or, if you're at all familiar withnbsp;Scandinaviannbsp;pronunciations, it'd look more like Skjeero, maybe.
Is it close to jeer at all?

Kind of. It's pronounced similar to year-o, or zero. I'm really not sure how to type it out just how it sounds.

StickyBaby · June 2013

YearO

brooksidebride · June 2013

momtobe1028:
I work in a Greek owned restaurant ... Its YeerOh

This. I would've spelled it out phonetically like this, though: Year-Oh. But same thing!

I'm pretty positive it's this way. But no one ever gets it right. It's a tricky one!

flowerx2 · June 2013

This is how I say it as well.

legallyginger · June 2013

brooksidebride:
momtobe1028:
I work in a Greek owned restaurant ... Its YeerOh
This. I would've spelled it out phonetically like this, though: Year-Oh. But same thing!
I'm pretty positive it's this way. But no one ever gets it right. It's a tricky one!

I worked in a pizza place owned by a family straight from Greece and that is how they pronounced it. Customers usually said "jyro".