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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

I say gyre with a hard G, but gyroscope with a soft G. Funny.

I followed the paradigm set by "gyroscope." But the switching, from first soft G then hard, tended to make me stutter, reciting. Hard G in both, all right, that should clear that up.

Webster's Third supports the soft G pronunciation, not the hard... which other pronunciation curiously enough means "a malignant spirit or spook" in Scots. Something new every day.

Hard-G for "gimble" as in "gimbal" (which goes both ways) is just fun.