Pterry

"Thompson, with a 'P', as in psychology"

Yeah.. silent Ps are weird 😅

LOL I forgot where that's from!

IIUC the problem is that they updated the pronunciation without updating the spelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

I started learning Japanese recently. It's made me realizehow sloppy English is with vowel sounds.

There's gyro as in gyroscope, where the Y vowel sound is like the word "eye", and there's gyro as in the Greek sandwich where the Y vowel is more like the vowel sound in "sea". The latter is often seen only as "gyros" because that's what the actual Greek word is, but because that seems like a plural in English the S is sometimes dropped.

the greek food gyro is kinda pronounced "yee-ro"