30 Oct
2015
30 Oct
'15
9:36 p.m.
On 2015-10-30 1408, John Sweeney via Callers wrote:
Pleas could you clarify how you intend to pronounce
"gyre"?
I have been saying "gyre" with a hard "g" as in "give" or
"gimble".
But if it is related to "gyrate" then maybe people are using a soft
"g" and
making it sound like "jire".
Which do you use? Thanks.
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Happy dancing,
John
My paper Oxford Concise appears to have it as a soft or "j" consonant
(from the Greek, guros, or ring.)
On-line, so obviously up to date, it appears it may be either
gyre - definition of gyre in English from the Oxford dictionary
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/gyre
Here they place the origin with both Greek and Latin.
I know of it as movement or place of movement within a body of water.
Most folks I've heard pronounce it as in gyrfalcon, gyrate, gyro (gyro
compass), jive, java ;)
TTFN, John
- geographer, mariner
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J.D. Erskine
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