<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top">FWIW, one of the supercomputers I work with is named Gyre, and it is generally pronounced with a soft get (as in "gin").<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.9070096884388477"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.9070096884388477">Perry<br><br><p><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></p> <hr><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:#7e7d80;"><b>From</b>:"John Sweeney via Callers" <callers@lists.sharedweight.net><br><b>Date</b>:Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 5:09 PM<br><b>Subject</b>:Re: [Callers] Gypsy Synopsis<br><br></div> <div id="msgSandbox_AAvnjkQAAALgVjPcfQ8PeGw5I0A_TEXT" class="msgSandbox" style="padding: 1.5em 0.5em 0.5em 1.2em; word-wrap: break-word;">Pleas could you clarify how you intend to pronounce "gyre"?<br><br>I
have been saying "gyre" with a hard "g" as in "give" or "gimble".<br><br>But if it is related to "gyrate" then maybe people are using a soft "g" and<br>making it sound like "jire".<br><br>Which do you use? Thanks.<br><br>By the way, I am still having major problems with understanding why the word<br>needs to be changed. "Gypsy" is not inherently bad.<br><br>Just Google, say, "gypsy pope" and you will find countless articles in<br>countless papers and other media (including Vatican Radio) referring to<br>"gypsies". Are they and the pope all racist? And that is just one example.<br><br>It is only racist if you use tone or context to make it so. But that can<br>apply to just about any word.<br><br>And in a dance environment it is definitely not racist.<br><br>If anyone ever asks me (and I doubt it will ever happen) I will tell them<br>that we call people who travel to dances "dance gypsies", just using the<br>word to mean
someone who travels; the move likewise is just a move where you<br>travel around each other. No deep meaning!<br><br>Happy dancing,<br>John<br><br>John Sweeney, Dancer, England <a ymailto="mailto:john@modernjive.com" href="javascript:return">john@modernjive.com</a> 01233 625 362<br><a href="http://www.contrafusion.co.uk " target="_blank">http://www.contrafusion.co.uk </a>for Dancing in Kent<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Callers mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Callers@lists.sharedweight.net" href="javascript:return">Callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net" target="_blank">http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net</a><br></div></td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div></td></tr></table>