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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:55:07 EST
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- From: "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Pizza Toppings
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- >>There is a restaurant in town called Gyro Wrap (pronounced Your-Oh).
- >>The best thing they serve is a falafel wrap with chunks of feta cheese.
- >>The "wrap" itself is pita bread. Mmmmm.
- >
- > Sorry to be a nitpicker (not really), but "Gyro" is pronounced
- >more like "GYee-Ro". It is hard to really explain the way the Greek
- >Gamma is pronounced without actually letting someone here it. It is
- >somewhat guttural. They "Y" is most definately NOT an "ou" sound. It
- >is a long "e" -- like most Greek vowels.
- >
- >Rita Rouvalis Electronic Frontier Foundation
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- I think I've mostly heard it as "Hero" with a guttural "H".
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- judith, hungrier...
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