on pronouncing "gyros" (recycled Linguist List posting)

Fri Mar 24 22:29:14 UTC 2000

I suspect the umlauted-o in doener kebab has more to do with Turkish vowel
harmony rules than anything else (such as the religion of the merchant).
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