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Some English speakers pronounce it / ˈ dʒ aɪ r oʊ /, likely because the word is a heteronym of the, only indirectly related, word "gyro". [ 11 ] In Athens and other parts of southern Greece, the skewered meat dish elsewhere called souvlaki is known as kalamaki , while souvlaki is a term used generally for gyros, and similar dishes. [ 12 ]
The güiro (Spanish pronunciation:) is a percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side. It is played by rubbing a stick or tines (see photo) along the notches to produce a ratchet sound.
Gyro, student magazine of Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand; Gyro International, a social fraternal organization; Gyroball, a Japanese baseball pitch; Gyro, or gyros, a greek pita wrap or the rotisserie cooked meat it contains
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language. [1] (Pronunciation ⓘ)
Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same (), or they may be pronounced differently (heteronyms, also known as heterophones).
In historical linguistics, a sound change is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature value) by a different one (called phonetic change) or a more general change to the speech sounds that exist (phonological change), such as the merger of two sounds or the creation of a new sound.
Guttural speech sounds are those with a primary place of articulation near the back of the oral cavity, where it is difficult to distinguish a sound's place of articulation and its phonation. In popular usage it is an imprecise term for sounds produced relatively far back in the vocal tract, such as the German ch or the Arabic ayin , but not ...
Spectrogram of [ʊ] Sagittal section of a vocal tract pronouncing the IPA sound ʊ. Note that a wavy glottis in this diagram indicates a voiced sound. The near-close near-back rounded vowel, or near-high near-back rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The IPA symbol that represents this sound is ʊ . It is ...