Pronunciation
 

This occurred to me today while ordering a gyro.

It seems widely accepted that the "correct" way to pronounce it is "yeerow" or sometimes "shjeerow" (or at least, my friends who care about seeming ethnically correct pronounce it this way).

Does your planned pronunciation change if you hear someone around pronounce the word differently? The guy at the stand was saying "jy-row" and so i just said it that way, but the prick i was there with used the "correct" pronunciation and it [censored] everything up.

This happens a lot in restaurants when the server pronounces something one way, and some jerk insists on pronouncing the word the "correct" way.

Or maybe this just annoys me, because don't want to rock the boat by presuming my pronunciation is better than someone else's.

mmmm...."jy-row"
bk

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This occurred to me today while ordering a gyro.

It seems widely accepted that the "correct" way to pronounce it is "yeerow" or sometimes "shjeerow"

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Never heard this pronunciation a single time in New England.

I say and hear j- eye- row

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well, that's good to know.

maybe it's not as widely accepted as i thought.

bk

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This occurred to me today while ordering a gyro.

It seems widely accepted that the "correct" way to pronounce it is "yeerow" or sometimes "shjeerow"

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Never heard this pronunciation a single time in New England.

I say and hear j- eye- row

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Is anything pronounced correctly in New England?

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Is anything pronounced correctly in New England?

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Let me clarify... Connecticut.

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Is anything pronounced correctly in New England?

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Let me clarify... Connecticut.

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I was thinking more along the lines of Bawwwwston.

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Is anything pronounced correctly in New England?

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Let me clarify... Connecticut.

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I was thinking more along the lines of Bawwwwston.

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Yeah I am in no way defending Rhode Island or eastern Mass.

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How the hell does anyone look a gyro and say, "yep... yeeero"?

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How the hell does anyone look a gyro and say, "yep... yeeero"?

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The same way that you look at tortilla and pronounce it tor-tee-ya (hopefully).

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This was settled by Chief Wiggum on the Simpsons. Better check Greektown.