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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"