Pork, veal, bread, meat sauce, onions, yellow mustard, celery salt New York System wiener, weenie, gagger, glizzy In Greek, gyro means rotating or circle, as in GYROscope. Gyros - lamb or beef sandwiches on pita with tomatoes, onions and tzatziki sauce - get their name from how they’re cooked: On a slowly spinning spit. The word gyro or gyros was already in use in English by at least 1970, and along with γύρος in Greek, eventually came to replace doner kebab for the Greek version of the dish. The name comes from the Greek γύρος (gyros, ‘circle’ or ‘turn’), and is a calque of the Turkish word döner, from dönmek, also meaning “turn”. This is how it’s spelled and pronounced in Japanese.

You can see all the Trend Watch articles here.According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, the word gyro is pronounced “yee-roh.” It rhymes with hero. Trend Watch tracks and reports on the words that people are looking up. Pronunciations for words are also included in dictionaries. The definition for this kind of gyro is “a sandwich especially of lamb and beef, tomato, onion, and yogurt sauce on pita bread.”

The turning spits of meat were also named using the Greek gyros (“turn”), but this more recent borrowing followed Greek-influenced phonetic rules rather than English ones to give us /YEE-roh/ and /ZHIHR-oh/ as common pronunciations. Then, around 1970, the word was borrowed again, but this time from the world of international cuisine rather than science. Gyro comes from the Greek word gyros meaning “turn,” and part of the confusion comes from the fact that it was borrowed twice into English: initially, it came as a shortening of words like gyroscope and gyrocompass and pronounced /JEYE-roh/. Lookups for gyro play spiked on March 14, 2017, when a widely shared sketch from The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and country singer Luke Bryan began with them ordering from a New York City food truck and ended with a music video for a song called “I Don’t Know How to Pronounce Gyro.”

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