XKCD #2819: Pronunciation
XKCD #2819: Pronunciation
I pronounce the 'u' in 'pronunciation' like in 'putting' but the 'ou' in 'pronounce' like in 'wound'.
Transcript
[The word "Tuesday", with each letter labeled by a box with an arrow:]
T: As in buffet
u: As in minute
e: As in record
s: As in use
d: As in moped
a: As in bass
y: As in gyro
[Caption below the panel:]
Pet peeve: Ambiguous pronunciation guides
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I didnt know gyro could be pronunced in multiple ways
There's gyro as in gyroscope, where the Y vowel sound is like the word "eye", and there's gyro as in the Greek sandwich where the Y vowel is more like the vowel sound in "sea". The latter is often seen only as "gyros" because that's what the actual Greek word is, but because that seems like a plural in English the S is sometimes dropped.
Ohh gyros as in the food lol
the greek food gyro is kinda pronounced "yee-ro"
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