How do you pronounce gyro?

Jai-row.

The sandwich “yee-ro”

The gyroscope, as Beast suggested

Gyroscope: jai-row
Gyro (pita sandwich): yee-row

Well the Greek guy at the Greek festival kept correcting me and said you-row.

@PupnTaco

Just steal the previous answers and call them your own, why don’t you?

Like this: “Um, no thanks. Where’s the brisket?”

Jī‘rō for scientific device. The Greek sandwich varies by area. Here it is yē‘rō.

I’ve heard Greek people who work in Mediterranean restaurants pronounce Gyro’s (the beef and lamb meat) Gee-rows.

But I’ve also heard them call it Hee-rows.

And Yee-rows.

I guess Yee-rows is correct…?

http://www.yourdictionary.com/gyro
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yee-ro. contrary to popular belief, some cultures pronounce this word like “ji-ro.” i was in front of a captive audience one day and chose to tell about my day at lunchtime. i said i had a “yee-ro” and several jumped to the opportunity to correct me. to my delight, i was glad i knew the proper pronunciation, but the english language sometimes does not respect silent g’s, j’s and from other vernaculars. they are comfortable with just saying plain old JI-RO. some say “GUY-ro.” but rest assured my friend—and im not even greek—it’s “yee-ro.” next time you order it the right way, you’ll get some extra lamb and cucumber sauce on that pita sandwich. ;)

I notice when I order the sandwich in Tarpon Springs Florida, I get a much better one if I say Yee-row, than if I say Jyerow. The greeks there like that I know the correct way to pronounce it.

gaai-row

I’ll try not to though.

Ur-oh sounds like euro the eroupean currency

@ beast: way to be.

@Pupn

Way to copy.

I have heard it pronounced ghee-row.

Depends on what word you mean. The meat wrapped in bread, according to my local actual Greek (as in, regularly goes back to Greece) deli owner is pronounced like the word “year” plus “oh”.

Gyro as in gyroscope is pronounced like j + eye + ro.

At least, by me. ;-)

In Greek it is [ʝiro]. In English [jiro].

To clarify even further, greek has a vowel sound that is similar (somewhat) to the umlauted u of german. The gy- is pronounced by making the lip shape of english “oo” and then saying “yee” through it. I can see why cooksalot thought he was saying Yoo-roh.

@breedmitch: Ancient Greek had that vowel, modern Greek doesn’t, it just has /i/.

True. I think the point I was trying to make is that Greek speakers don’t make the american ee (say “cheese”) mouth shape to pronounce /i/.

Like “Euro”

gee-row

@libraryguy, rhymes with meow?

Because I like that.

Ji (long i) ro (long o). As noted in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 1960 ed.
I always pronounced it “guy-row,” which, to me, sounds better when pronouncing “Gyro Gearloose,” a Disney cartoon character.