on pronouncing "gyros" (recycled Linguist List posting)

[David Bergdahl]

In the United States, the other most common pronunciations seem to be
the Anglicized /dZaI.rowz/ (like the first syllable of "gyroscope"
with a /z/ on the end), used largely in the South and East Coast, and
/hi.rowz/, apparently based on phonetic similarity with the (probably
unrelated) "hero" sandwich.
--
I'm interested in the pronunciation of "gyroscope" since before it was
taken over by Remington-Rand, my father worked for Sperry Gyroscope in
Lake Success, NY and at Sperry it was pronounced with [g]--like the
Disney character Gyro Gearloose.  However, I have a faint recollection
of the toy as pronounced with a [dZ]!
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