spy-row or spee-row?

[crazyjackcsa]

Hi, Just wondering how everybody says the name Spyro? Spy-row or Spee-ro?

[Half Cab Leroy]

Spy-row

[Duncan]

Spy-row

Yes, that. :)

[SegaAges]

definately spy-row.

(aka spie-roe)

[EnemyZero]

spy-row unless your wearing overalls, and doin ure sister

[LiquidX01]

spy-row unless your wearing overalls, and doin ure sister

Heh, spy-row for me also.

[charitycasegreg]

spy-row unless your wearing overalls, and doin ure sister

c'moyn niow

[shai hulud]

yea spy-row


what about gyro?

[boatofcar]

yea spy-row


what about gyro?


Interesting point.

[tholly]

Spy-row


ditto

[PapaStu]

Spy-ro (long o sound)

[jonjandran]

yea spy-row


what about gyro?

pronounced hee-row

[Daltone]

Spy-row (row row your boat, gently down the stream.)

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

spy-row unless your wearing overalls, and doin ure sister
Fun fact: there's a small town named Spiro, pronounced the same as above, in eastern Oklahoma.

I don't know if anyone there is doing their sister whilst wearing overalls, however.

[Ed Oscuro]

Spiro Agnew xD

[Dahne]

I want a Spyro Agnew watch!

[Aussie2B]

Another vote for "Spy-row", as in "pyromaniac". ;)

[Lady Jaye]

What the others have said -- Spy-row

[Anexanhume]

It's in the commercials I've seen-- spy-row.

[Ed Oscuro]

I want a Spyro Agnew watch!
Scary thing is I've got a comic book from the '70s with an ad for one o_O

@ Aussie2B: I remember seeing a movie short a few years ago about the game's development...that rings a bell. You're right, of course :)

[Gemini-Phoenix]

In the first game, all the other dragons call him spy-row

[Iron Draggon]

yea spy-row


what about gyro?

pronounced hee-row

Only if you're talking about Greek sandwiches. You don't play hee-rowmite on your NES do you? Have a little fun with a hee-rowscope? Didn't think so.

I vote for spy-row too. If for no other reason than because you might like to listen to spy-row gye-ra and not to spee-ro hee-ra if you're into 80's music.

[jonjandran]

yea spy-row


what about gyro?

pronounced hee-row

Only if you're talking about Greek sandwiches. You don't play hee-rowmite on your NES do you? Have a little fun with a hee-rowscope? Didn't think so.

I vote for spy-row too. If for no other reason than because you might like to listen to spy-row gye-ra and not to spee-ro hee-ra if you're into 80's music.

Uh I was talking about a Greek sandwich. :P

[Iron Draggon]

OK, I'll take one! And some souvalaki and some keftedes and some kebabs!

[Cauterize]

x_x

[Aussie2B]

"hee-row" isn't how you say "gyro" (as in the Greek sandwich) either. :P The closest Americans can get it would be "yee-row", but even that's not right. Gamma (the "g"-ish sounding letter in the Greek alphabet) has a sound that's completely foreign to native English speakers. It comes from the throat, and it's very difficult to do unless your native language is Greek or some other language that uses the sound (like the Slavic languages).

Incidentally, the "gyro" in "Gyromite" and "gyroscope" and such has the same origins. It comes from the Greek word for "turn" (the sandwich has the name from the rotation of meat on a spit). "Gyromite" and "gyroscope" are just more examples of words that get totally American-ized.

Ugh... don't ask how I know all this... o_O

[jonjandran]

"hee-row" isn't how you say "gyro" (as in the Greek sandwich) either. :P The closest Americans can get it would be "yee-row", but even that's not right. Gamma (the "g"-ish sounding letter in the Greek alphabet) has a sound that's completely foreign to native English speakers. It comes from the throat, and it's very difficult to do unless your native language is Greek or some other language that uses the sound (like the Slavic languages).

Incidentally, the "gyro" in "Gyromite" and "gyroscope" and such has the same origins. It comes from the Greek word for "turn" (the sandwich has the name from the rotation of meat on a spit). "Gyromite" and "gyroscope" are just more examples of words that get totally American-ized.

Ugh... don't ask how I know all this... o_O

Well I have 2 friends from Turkey and they said "hee-row" is as close as it gets.

[Aussie2B]

Don't trust a Turk on Greek pronunciation. ;) The Greeks hate the Turks, and the Turks hate them back. You know, the word "Greek" itself is Turkish for "slave".

[jonjandran]

Don't trust a Turk on Greek pronunciation. ;) The Greeks hate the Turks, and the Turks hate them back. You know, the word "Greek" itself is Turkish for "slave".

LOL

[Psycho Mantis]

spy-row.

[NESaholic]

Well i saw the commercials on tv back then and they def. say: spy-row.