<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For those who may not have access to the online OED, here the beginning of the entry for the noun "gyre." I agree that "gyre" is a good candidate! (OED = Oxford English Dictionary; and the pronunciation given is the "jire" one.)<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><h1 id="pagetitle" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 9px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 3.4em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(204, 33, 39); font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; clear: both; "><span class="hwSect"><span class="hw">gyre</span>, <span class="ps" style="font-style: italic; ">n.</span></span></h1><div class="cssBaseOne" id="entryPageContent" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; "><div id="preContentTools" style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; clear: left; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; width: 648px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.6em; "><strong style="font-weight: bold; float: left; display: block; line-height: 25px; "><a href="http://public.oed.com/how-to-use-the-oed/key-to-pronunciation/" target="_new" style="color: black; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">Pronunciation:</a></strong> Brit. <a class="pronunciationLink" id="pronunciationLink" rel="243363572" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">/<span class="phonetics" style="line-height: 25px; font-size: 1.083em; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', arial, sans-serif; ">ˈdʒʌɪə</span>/ </a>, U.S. <a class="pronunciationLink" id="pronunciationLink" rel="243363574" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">/<span class="phonetics" style="line-height: 25px; font-size: 1.083em; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', arial, sans-serif; ">ˈdʒaɪ(ə)r</span>/</a></div><div xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" xmlns:avail="java:com.oup.oed.DocExistence" id="formsArray" class="forms preEntry" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 0.7em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span id="formsSpanBlock1" style="margin-right: 4px; "><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">Forms:</strong> Also 16 <strong style="font-weight: bold; ">gire</strong>.</span><span id="formsSpanBlock3"></span></div><div xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" xmlns:avail="java:com.oup.oed.DocExistence" class="etymology preEntry" id="eid2136949" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 0.7em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span id="etymologySpanBlock1"><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">Etymology:</strong> < Latin <em style="font-style: italic; ">gȳrus</em>, < Greek <em style="font-style: italic; ">γῦρος</em> ring, circle. Compare <a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/78500#eid2922509" class="crossReferencePopup" rel="78500" rev="/view/Entry/78500#eid2922509" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="xref"><span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">giro</span> <span class="ps" style="font-style: italic; ">n.<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; font-size: 0.6em; position: relative; top: -0.4em; ">1</sup></span></span></a></span><span id="etymologySpanBlock3"></span></div><div xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" xmlns:avail="java:com.oup.oed.DocExistence" class="senseSect entryBase" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 25px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.7em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.231em; "><em title="poetic(al)" style="font-style: italic; ">poet.</em> and <em style="font-style: italic; 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">1.</strong></span> A turning round, revolution, whirl; a circular or spiral turn.</h3></div><div class="frame" style="margin-top: -10px; margin-right: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 25px; background-image: url(http://www.oed.com/assets/ctx/20151007/images/bg_senseGroup_btm_gd.gif); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; position: static; z-index: auto; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid2136969" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div class="quotation" id="eid2136970" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid160124364" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1566 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">T. Drant</span> tr. Horace <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0126558" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Medicinable Morall</a></em> sig. Bij,</span> Fashions..Which..do cum, And goe in circled <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyre</span>.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2136980" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid235887944" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1590 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">Spenser</span> <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0414723" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Faerie Queene</a></em> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">ii.</span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">v.</span> sig. Q5,</span> To ward, Or strike, or hurtle rownd in warlike <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyre</span>.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2136989" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid160124378" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1604 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">B. Jonson</span> <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0235673" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Particular Entertainm. at Althrope</a></em> 107</span> Pardon Lady this wild straine,..Elues, apply your <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">Gyre</span> againe.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2136997" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid160124384" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1608 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">Bp. J. Hall</span> <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0185500" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Epist.</a></em> II. <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">iv.</span> iii. 137</span> Other Artizans doe but practise, we still learn; others run still in the same <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyre</span>, to wearinesse..our choice is infinite.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2137007" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid171337865" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span><i>c</i>1620 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">T. Robinson</span> <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0379008" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Mary Magdalene</a></em> (1899) <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">i.</span> xciv. 786</span> Like to y<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; font-size: 0.6em; position: relative; top: -0.4em; ">e</sup> top, y<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; font-size: 0.6em; position: relative; top: -0.4em; ">t</sup> in his <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyre</span> doth spin.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2137019" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid160124398" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1649 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">J. Bulwer</span> <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0065460" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Pathomyotomia</a></em> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">ii.</span> i. 71</span> In all these we may easily maintaine the <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyre</span> or circumaction of the Head.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2137028" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid160124404" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1669 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">W. Simpson</span> <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0404323" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Hydrol. Chymica</a></em> 78</span> Whirling them in oblique <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyres</span>.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2137036" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid317521710" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1814 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">H. F. Cary</span> tr. Dante <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0077199" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Vision</a></em> I. <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">xvii.</span> 73</span> Be thy wheeling <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyres</span> Of ample circuit, easy thy descent.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2137047" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid324984384" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1829 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">R. Southey</span> <em style="font-style: italic; ">Inscriptions Caledonian Canal</em> ii, in A. Cunningham <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0109113" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Anniversary</a></em> 195</span> The glede Wheeling between the mountains in mid air, Eastward or westward as his <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyre</span> inclines.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2137058" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid211637874" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1856 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">E. B. Browning</span> <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0061408" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Aurora Leigh</a></em> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">iv.</span> 176</span> Graduating up in a spiral line Of still expanding and ascending <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyres</span>.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2137067" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid160124433" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1920 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">W. B. Yeats</span> <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0485238" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Michael Robartes</a></em> 34</span> All our scientific, democratic, fact-accumulating, heterogeneous civilization belongs to the outward <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyre</span>.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2137075" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid160124439" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1928 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">W. B. Yeats</span> <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0485200" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Coll. Poems</a></em> (1950) 217</span> O sages standing in God's holy fire... Come from the holy fire, perne in a <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyre</span>.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2137084" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid160124446" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1929 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">W. B. Yeats</span> <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0485229" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Let.</a></em> (1954) 764,</span> I believe I shall have a poetical re-birth for as I write about my cones and <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyres</span> all sorts of images come before me.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2137093" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid160124453" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1930 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">R. Campbell</span> <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0073158" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Adamastor</a></em> 98</span> A serpent..With lifted crest and radiant <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyre</span> Revolving into wheels of fire.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2137101" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid160124459" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1948 </span> <span class="smallCaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">C. Day Lewis</span> <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0258526" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Poems 1943–7</a></em> 64</span> Earth-souls doomed in their <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyres</span> to unwind Some tragic love-tangle.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid2137109" style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: -3em; "><span class="noIndent" id="eid160124465" style="text-indent: 0px; "><span>1962 </span> <em style="font-style: italic; "><a class="sourcePopup" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82897?rskey=693BzA&result=1&isAdvanced=false" rel="0262756" style="color: rgb(91, 133, 177); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 224, 248); ">Listener</a></em> 20 Dec. 1047/2</span> It is deeply satisfying both as riddle and as poem. The poet evokes an atmosphere of mystery within the frame of the eternal <span class="quotationKeyword" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: gray; ">gyre</span>.</div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 25px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: auto; "></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><div><div>On Oct 30, 2015, at 5:36 PM, JD Erskine iDance via Callers wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 2015-10-30 1408, John Sweeney via Callers wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Pleas could you clarify how you intend to pronounce "gyre"?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have been saying "gyre" with a hard "g" as in "give" or "gimble".<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">But if it is related to "gyrate" then maybe people are using a soft "g" and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">making it sound like "jire".<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Which do you use? Thanks.<br></blockquote>snip<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Happy dancing,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">John<br></blockquote><br>My paper Oxford Concise appears to have it as a soft or "j" consonant (from the Greek, guros, or ring.)<br><br>On-line, so obviously up to date, it appears it may be either<br><br>gyre - definition of gyre in English from the Oxford dictionary<br><a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/gyre">http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/gyre</a><br>Here they place the origin with both Greek and Latin.<br><br>I know of it as movement or place of movement within a body of water.<br><br>Most folks I've heard pronounce it as in gyrfalcon, gyrate, gyro (gyro compass), jive, java ;)<br><br>TTFN, John<br>- geographer, mariner<br>-- <br>J.D. 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