[Sca-cooks] Gyro? Hero?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Michael Gunter wrote:
>
> >Depending on where you are in Greece (or
> >elsewhere), what your accent is like, and whether
> >you spend a lot of time talking to Americans, it
> >is pronounced variously as JY-ro, JEE-ro,
> >GEE-ro, or YEE-ro. (Which latter is really more
> >like ghyro, with a very soft "g", than like yeero.)
>
> >HTH
> >
> >Adamantius
>
> Although fascinating as usual, Master A, I don't think
> this answers the original question. Basically, which
> came first, the gyro or the hero? And are they somehow
> related in lexicon or did the names spawn independantly
> of each other. So far there has been no difintive answer.
>
> Gunthar
>
> But I like talking about both sandwiches.

As long as they're not po'boys...

I'm sorry, I must have been so driven for my response to be chock full
of interesting stuff that I plumb forgot to include the actual answert,
or rather my opinion on same. I think the two terms developed
independently, and bear a coincidental resemblance.

This is the kinda thing I would write to Andy F. Smith about... maybe I will.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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