[Ads-l] Fwd: Gyros = euros?

[Laurence Horn]

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> From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> Subject: Re: Gyros = euros?
> Date: April 6, 2017 at 10:31:52 AM EDT
> To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
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>> On Apr 6, 2017, at 10:27 AM, MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL> wrote:
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>> I often hear it pronounced "yirr-oh”.
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> I’ve heard “year-oh" too, along with “gear-oh” and “hero”.


…and /dzairo/ as in “gyroscope”. And “jeer-oh”.  I suppose the “hero” pronunciation suggests a diachronic conflation with the very different sandwich now more usually known as a sub.



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