Pronunciation

[bennyk]

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