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tintar [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 11:00:30 PM  
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/no, it's: sanguiches.
 
Stile4aly [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 1:01:16 AM  
People mispronounce things, but there's no reason to go nucular.
 
Ragin' Asian [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 4:03:15 AM  
Uh... what?

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bostonguy [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 4:10:16 AM  
Eh. It's still a laffa.
 
Swiss Colony
2023-02-03 5:25:28 AM  
Quinoa gets me. Not because it's difficult, but because every language other than English (including were it is grown in original Quechuan) pronounces it 'kin-oh-a' not 'keen-wah'.

"While some believed that the word 'quinoa' is Spanish in origin and thus incorrectly pronounced it as 'keen-oh-wah', the word originates from the Andean language of Quechua. In its native language, it is spelled as kinuwa and pronounced as 'keen-u-wah'."

Source
 
Snapper Carr
2023-02-03 5:30:14 AM  
sopranos but just gabagool (extended cold cut edition)
Youtube YsBipoG22Nw


Gabagool: (noun):  Ovah heah.
 
Thosw [BareFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 5:30:33 AM  
Wife was jonesing for one, so we found a strip mall Greek joint close by. Waitress pronounced it GUY-row and we haven't been back since.
 
Aussie_As
2023-02-03 5:40:28 AM  
Austalia has a pretty large population of Greek immigrants and their progeny and we don't have 'gyros' anywhere, but you can get a bloody good 'yiros' in every suburb in the city where I live. It's probably not the technically correct spelling but it avoids the mispronunciation issue completely. In other cities essentially the same food item is sold as 'kebab' or 'souvlaki'. Whatever it's called doesn't matter much, the important thing is it solves a big hunger while depositing garlic sauce down your shirt in a very satisfying way.
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 6:45:59 AM  
Imagine not only not knowing how to pronounce "Worcestershire," "gyro" and "charcuterie" but also announcing it to the world.
 
assjuice
2023-02-03 7:01:49 AM  
Bruschetta. The waiter never even get it right.
 
NathanAllen
2023-02-03 7:04:26 AM  
Shawarma.

It's pronounced shawarma.
 
mekkab [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 7:09:56 AM  
As someone who is duolingo'ing his way into the Spoken Hellenics and who can ask for a gyro with rice*, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/*I can also say "the skeleton is in the pink throne", "the water is pink", "the bread and the fish are pink", and "Nicos is an architect"
//I will probably learn to call Nicos a pink architect in the next lesson, fingers crossed!
 
odinsposse
2023-02-03 7:19:01 AM  

NathanAllen: Shawarma.

It's pronounced shawarma.


Or Al Pastor
 
Ambitwistor [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 7:45:54 AM  
"Gyro" isn't even a word in Greek, so arguments about how to pronounce it correctly are moot. "Gyros" is singular.
 
NINEv2
2023-02-03 8:24:39 AM  

Stile4aly: People mispronounce things, but there's no reason to go nucular.


NOOKEELER. Sheesh. iats' like ur  English language for all intensive purposes just exsists to be butchered their.

/christ that hurts to lookit
 
pheelix
2023-02-03 8:35:30 AM  
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McGrits [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 8:44:29 AM  
I make a texmex fusion dish that I am still trying name. It is like a taco crossed with a gyro. Homemade grilled and sliced chorizo fresco, homemade tazicki, fresh poblano for crunch, fresh tomato. It is rather tasty. I just can't figure which name to go with. Loco Gyro with the proper yiro sound; or Stupid Gyro like gyroscope. Anyway it is freaking tasty.

As for TFA, you could just call them by their original name of donar. My Greek friends get all kind of upset when you call a Greek item by its Turkish name. I still have fun with the dolmas/dolmaldes foods.
 
bearded clamorer [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 9:00:19 AM  
If you make one with turtle meat, is it a "Snapping Gyro"?
 
IHadMeAVision
2023-02-03 9:29:48 AM  

Swiss Colony: Quinoa gets me. Not because it's difficult, but because every language other than English (including were it is grown in original Quechuan) pronounces it 'kin-oh-a' not 'keen-wah'.

"While some believed that the word 'quinoa' is Spanish in origin and thus incorrectly pronounced it as 'keen-oh-wah', the word originates from the Andean language of Quechua. In its native language, it is spelled as kinuwa and pronounced as 'keen-u-wah'."

Source


¿Por qué no las dos?From Wiki:Chenopodium quinoa, también conocida como quinua,[1] quínoa[2] (ambas del quechua kinwa[3]) o quinoa[2] (también del quechua kinuwa[4]), es una hierba...

It's like English took the pronunciation of the first two variants but used the spelling of the third, assuming wiki ain't pulling shiat out of their asses. The article prefers quinua, FWIW.
 
IHadMeAVision
2023-02-03 9:30:25 AM  
Formatting failure ^^^
 
vonster
2023-02-03 9:42:13 AM  
We can put it rest.

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Oneiros [OhFark]
2023-02-03 10:00:48 AM  

assjuice: Bruschetta. The waiter never even get it right.


The "sch" in it should be a 'sk' sound like in school.

/feels kinda creeped out when I hear Brits say 'schedule'
 
Cortez the Killer
2023-02-03 10:09:54 AM  
I don't care how you pronounce it. Now I want a damn gyro!
 
bostonguy [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 10:22:03 AM  

Cortez the Killer: I don't care how you pronounce it. Now I want a damn gyro!


MY PRECIOUSSSSSSSS.

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abhorrent1
2023-02-03 10:32:17 AM  
doner kebab
 
Kris_Romm
2023-02-03 11:06:20 AM  
That piece claims "zhir-o," "yee-ro," "jai-ro," and "hee-ro."  But the Greeks in my area say "yeh-ro".  Could be an accent thing.
 
DarwiOdrade [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 11:41:09 AM  
aweem away
 
ski9600 [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 11:59:39 AM  

McGrits: I make a texmex fusion dish that I am still trying name. It is like a taco crossed with a gyro. Homemade grilled and sliced chorizo fresco, homemade tazicki, fresh poblano for crunch, fresh tomato. It is rather tasty. I just can't figure which name to go with. Loco Gyro with the proper yiro sound; or Stupid Gyro like gyroscope. Anyway it is freaking tasty.

As for TFA, you could just call them by their original name of donar. My Greek friends get all kind of upset when you call a Greek item by its Turkish name. I still have fun with the dolmas/dolmaldes foods.


do you pronounce that taz-ICKY? This is important in the thread.

/Also, tortilla or pita?
//and no mention of chipoltee yet?  for shame
 
mekkab [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 12:03:16 PM  

ski9600: //and no mention of chipoltee yet?


LAY off my CHEE POT UHL. ;)


/Has only recently stopped pronouncing the first "r" in sriracha
//I refer to it as Sir Ratcha of Pepperdom, bravest knight in the land
 
mekkab [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 12:08:27 PM  
and it's spelled γύροςso I think that should clear things up.


/It clears nothing up.
//Pronouncing Gamma seems to be a "Whatever you feel like, today" affair
///Don't get me started on the differences between iota, eta, and even sometimes upsilon (see: γύρος )
 
McGrits [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 12:44:01 PM  

ski9600: McGrits: I make a texmex fusion dish that I am still trying name. It is like a taco crossed with a gyro. Homemade grilled and sliced chorizo fresco, homemade tazicki, fresh poblano for crunch, fresh tomato. It is rather tasty. I just can't figure which name to go with. Loco Gyro with the proper yiro sound; or Stupid Gyro like gyroscope. Anyway it is freaking tasty.

As for TFA, you could just call them by their original name of donar. My Greek friends get all kind of upset when you call a Greek item by its Turkish name. I still have fun with the dolmas/dolmaldes foods.

do you pronounce that taz-ICKY? This is important in the thread.

/Also, tortilla or pita?
//and no mention of chipoltee yet?  for shame


Homemade Chorizo Fresco links grilled, sliced, and seared again

Homemade tazicki probably pronounced wrong and has a higher level of garlic with the dill and cucumber

Fresh tomato slices, only from the garden during that one week of the year I can grow tomatoes, else store bought

Fresh Poblano slice, nice and crunchy (from the store as I only have jalapeños plants)

All wrapped up in a homemade toasted 8-in flour tortilla with proper quarter sized burn spots


Spicy and cool and crunchy and just good eats

/still need to figure out what to call it
 
toraque [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 1:00:00 PM  

McGrits: ski9600: McGrits: I make a texmex fusion dish that I am still trying name. It is like a taco crossed with a gyro. Homemade grilled and sliced chorizo fresco, homemade tazicki, fresh poblano for crunch, fresh tomato. It is rather tasty. I just can't figure which name to go with. Loco Gyro with the proper yiro sound; or Stupid Gyro like gyroscope. Anyway it is freaking tasty.

As for TFA, you could just call them by their original name of donar. My Greek friends get all kind of upset when you call a Greek item by its Turkish name. I still have fun with the dolmas/dolmaldes foods.

do you pronounce that taz-ICKY? This is important in the thread.

/Also, tortilla or pita?
//and no mention of chipoltee yet?  for shame

Homemade Chorizo Fresco links grilled, sliced, and seared again

Homemade tazicki probably pronounced wrong and has a higher level of garlic with the dill and cucumber

Fresh tomato slices, only from the garden during that one week of the year I can grow tomatoes, else store bought

Fresh Poblano slice, nice and crunchy (from the store as I only have jalapeños plants)

All wrapped up in a homemade toasted 8-in flour tortilla with proper quarter sized burn spots


Spicy and cool and crunchy and just good eats

/still need to figure out what to call it


From the sound of it, I think you'd call it 'delicious'

/will be doing a Alton Brown-derivative gyro-like meat log thing in the smoker this weekend
 
ski9600 [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 1:56:07 PM  

toraque: McGrits: ski9600: McGrits: I make a texmex fusion dish that I am still trying name. It is like a taco crossed with a gyro. Homemade grilled and sliced chorizo fresco, homemade tazicki, fresh poblano for crunch, fresh tomato. It is rather tasty. I just can't figure which name to go with. Loco Gyro with the proper yiro sound; or Stupid Gyro like gyroscope. Anyway it is freaking tasty.

As for TFA, you could just call them by their original name of donar. My Greek friends get all kind of upset when you call a Greek item by its Turkish name. I still have fun with the dolmas/dolmaldes foods.

do you pronounce that taz-ICKY? This is important in the thread.

/Also, tortilla or pita?
//and no mention of chipoltee yet?  for shame

Homemade Chorizo Fresco links grilled, sliced, and seared again

Homemade tazicki probably pronounced wrong and has a higher level of garlic with the dill and cucumber

Fresh tomato slices, only from the garden during that one week of the year I can grow tomatoes, else store bought

Fresh Poblano slice, nice and crunchy (from the store as I only have jalapeños plants)

All wrapped up in a homemade toasted 8-in flour tortilla with proper quarter sized burn spots


Spicy and cool and crunchy and just good eats

/still need to figure out what to call it

From the sound of it, I think you'd call it 'delicious'

/will be doing a Alton Brown-derivative gyro-like meat log thing in the smoker this weekend


McGrits: ski9600: McGrits: I make a texmex fusion dish that I am still trying name. It is like a taco crossed with a gyro. Homemade grilled and sliced chorizo fresco, homemade tazicki, fresh poblano for crunch, fresh tomato. It is rather tasty. I just can't figure which name to go with. Loco Gyro with the proper yiro sound; or Stupid Gyro like gyroscope. Anyway it is freaking tasty.

do you pronounce that taz-ICKY? This is important in the thread.

/Also, tortilla or pita?
//and no mention of chipoltee yet?  for shame

Homemade Chorizo Fresco links grilled, sliced, and seared again

Homemade tazicki probably pronounced wrong and has a higher level of garlic with the dill and cucumber

Fresh tomato slices, only from the garden during that one week of the year I can grow tomatoes, else store bought

Fresh Poblano slice, nice and crunchy (from the store as I only have jalapeños plants)

All wrapped up in a homemade toasted 8-in flour tortilla with proper quarter sized burn spots


Spicy and cool and crunchy and just good eats

/still need to figure out what to call it


Ok, I don't really care about spelling or pronunciation.  The flour or corn or pita was the important part. Is the flour tortilla puffy?--this is important!

https://www.seriouseats.com/puffy-tacos-ground-beef-san-antonio-recipe
 
grumpfuff
2023-02-03 2:52:26 PM  

FlashHarry: Imagine not only not knowing how to pronounce "Worcestershire," "gyro" and "charcuterie" but also announcing it to the world.


In fairness, I intentionally butcher it, partly because it's an in-joke with some of my friends, and partly because it amuses me to see how someone "corrects" it.
 
grumpfuff
2023-02-03 2:55:05 PM  
Couple years ago, I did notice a bunch of UK/Irish people pronouncing jalapeño as "jah-lop-eh-no", but that does seem to have been largely corrected.
 
olrasputin
2023-02-03 3:29:17 PM  

McGrits: ski9600: McGrits: I make a texmex fusion dish that I am still trying name. It is like a taco crossed with a gyro. Homemade grilled and sliced chorizo fresco, homemade tazicki, fresh poblano for crunch, fresh tomato. It is rather tasty. I just can't figure which name to go with. Loco Gyro with the proper yiro sound; or Stupid Gyro like gyroscope. Anyway it is freaking tasty.

As for TFA, you could just call them by their original name of donar. My Greek friends get all kind of upset when you call a Greek item by its Turkish name. I still have fun with the dolmas/dolmaldes foods.

do you pronounce that taz-ICKY? This is important in the thread.

/Also, tortilla or pita?
//and no mention of chipoltee yet?  for shame

Homemade Chorizo Fresco links grilled, sliced, and seared again

Homemade tazicki probably pronounced wrong and has a higher level of garlic with the dill and cucumber

Fresh tomato slices, only from the garden during that one week of the year I can grow tomatoes, else store bought

Fresh Poblano slice, nice and crunchy (from the store as I only have jalapeños plants)

All wrapped up in a homemade toasted 8-in flour tortilla with proper quarter sized burn spots


Spicy and cool and crunchy and just good eats

/still need to figure out what to call it


But no really.

That's twice with "Tazicki" now.

Is that a spelling error, an Intentional Fark Typo, or are you pronouncing it like that?
 
iron_city_ap
2023-02-03 3:30:20 PM  
A Gyro does sound mighty tasty, thanks to this.
 
EJ25T
2023-02-03 3:35:07 PM  
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olrasputin
2023-02-03 3:37:25 PM  
Also:

"I won enough tickets playing guac-a-moles at the state fair to get the big Chupacabra plushie."
 
cyberspacedout
2023-02-03 4:13:58 PM  

odinsposse: NathanAllen: Shawarma.

It's pronounced shawarma.

Or Al Pastor


Somewhere in this world, I'm sure there exists a pastor named Al who is tired of jokes about his name.
 
Gough
2023-02-03 4:49:41 PM  
My brother and SIL live just outside of NYC and she  will try to correct anyone  who pronounces it any way but jai-ro.  She's lived there long enough to believe that the NYC method of everything is the only civilized way.
 
Gough
2023-02-03 8:48:27 PM  
jai-row?  yee-row?  Neither, it's pronounced /daa-nr/.
 
austerity101
2023-02-03 9:08:25 PM  

Swiss Colony: Quinoa gets me. Not because it's difficult, but because every language other than English (including were it is grown in original Quechuan) pronounces it 'kin-oh-a' not 'keen-wah'.

"While some believed that the word 'quinoa' is Spanish in origin and thus incorrectly pronounced it as 'keen-oh-wah', the word originates from the Andean language of Quechua. In its native language, it is spelled as kinuwa and pronounced as 'keen-u-wah'."

Source


The word "quinoa" itself is Spanish, which is a borrowing from the Quechua.

According to the Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'anch, AKA the Quechua-Spanish dictionary, both "kinuwa" and "kinwa" are words found in Quechua for this word. So it makes sense that Spanish would end up with "quinoa."

So, no, every other language doesn't call it that. Hispanophones don't, and apparently nor do a whole bunch of Quechua speakers.
 
austerity101
2023-02-03 9:10:03 PM  

assjuice: Bruschetta. The waiter never even get it right.


I've had people try to argue to me that Italians pronounce it "brooshetta." Sure, never mind that I've studied Italian phonology and orthography. I'm sure you're right on this one.

/going to Italian restaurants is painful
//shouldn't people be able to pronounce the names of food they're selling??
 
austerity101
2023-02-03 9:12:22 PM  

Ambitwistor: "Gyro" isn't even a word in Greek, so arguments about how to pronounce it correctly are moot. "Gyros" is singular.


Sure, but that doesn't work so well in English. We only have a few nouns that end in (vowel)S in the singular because it gets confusing.
 
Fursecution [BareFark]
2023-02-03 9:12:47 PM  
If you lived within range of Omaha TV stations, you knew how to pronounce it.

King Kong Fast Food
Youtube afKQ0WCpi_E


/The best commercial was with the owner saying it.
//Still got that burned into brain thirty years later.
 
austerity101
2023-02-03 9:13:29 PM  

Oneiros: assjuice: Bruschetta. The waiter never even get it right.

The "sch" in it should be a 'sk' sound like in school.

/feels kinda creeped out when I hear Brits say 'schedule'


It should, yes, but not because it has anything in common with school or schedule, but because it's Italian.
 
austerity101
2023-02-03 9:18:21 PM  
The fact that this author doesn't understand that "shar-koo-ter-ee" and "shar-kyoo-ter-ree" aren't merely regional variations of pronunciation within the English language marks them as an idiot who should not have written this article.

It's called yod-dropping. It's why many of us say "myoo-zick" for music but "nooz" instead of "nyooz" for news. But someone who says "nyooz" isn't wrong, and they are perfectly understandable. "Shar-kyoo-ter-ree" isn't wrong just because an American dictionary doesn't list it as a pronunciation.

(This is something I have to teach to singers in order for them to sing in a more formal English register for art song.)
 
austerity101
2023-02-03 9:18:49 PM  
*are merely regional variations, oops.
 
Sabreace22 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 9:21:16 PM  
I shall call it "Greek Taco."
 
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