Toronto or Torahntah?

[ohiosmith]

[newscaster]

1. I've never heard it pronounced Torahntah.

Therefore, there is no such thing......or place.
Even my spell-checker says its nowhere!!!!

:silly:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Tarantino..... "Quentin".... n/t

[Hand]

3. Tranna, supposedly... or...

"That bunch of snotty buggers in Ontario there".

:evilgrin:

[reprehensor]

4. Teronna

Definitely not: TOE RON TOE

IMO

(from Alberta, eh?)

[iverglas]

7. there ya go -- a Haligonian and an Albertan

-- still say "Tranna" or some variation thereof, as some older Ontarians still do.

But the younger generation of Ontarians says "Tuh-ron-to".

[Hand]

10. I don't say Tranna...

I'm strictly a "Them snotty buggers..." type.

:evilgrin:

[iverglas]

11. Toronto Life Magazine

had an article 5 or 6 years ago about a survey asking other Canadians how much they hated Toronto. The results were a little less anti-Toronto than one might have expected.

As my Toronto sister observed, the mag couldn't seem to decide whether it was more insulted, on Toronto's behalf, that so many people hated it, or that so many people didn't hate it.

It's only fun being the centre of the universe if the rest of the world notices, I guess. ;)

[MrPrax]

5. TO..?

ToRondoh the Good...

My fav TO joke we tell on the West Coast:

A:How can you tell a guy is from Toronto?
Q:He shaves on the weekend

[iverglas]

6. an Armenian I knew settled it in 1969

My undergrad best friend was Swiss-Canadian -- but she mostly grew up in Southern Ontario, so I think her clear/clipped way of speaking was just her own idiosyncracy/slight affectation. Anyhow, we were out with some guys from the neighbouring university one night, and she said something about going to Toronto, pronounced "T(uh)ronTo". Back then, most people said "Trahnuh" -- a pronunciation that has actually mostly died off these days, I've noticed.

The two native-born guys made an issue of her pronunciation, uncommon as it was in the day when everyone said "Trahnuh", and she defended it. So the two of them turned to the third for impartial arbitration, since he was Armenian and had only been in Canada two years: how was it pronounced? "TronTo", he said. (He probably was more familiar with the real Tirana, and knew that it wasn't in Ontario.) Of course ... since he was Armenian and had only been in Canada two years ... they then disowned him as their authority.

It is interesting, though, that the "Trahnuh" version has almost entirely disappeared, in favour of "T(uh)ronto", mainly. I'm not even sure that the immigrant kids of my acquaintance, especially, would know what I was talking about if I said Trahnuh.

[ironflange]

8. Trawna

Or Hogtown.

[TrogL]

16. Trawna as well

I grew up in Niagara Falls

[Canuckistanian]

20. I say Trawna as well

As a former resident of 'Tobico

[Hand]

22. Hogtown?

Wouldn't "Swineville" be more appropriate?

:evilgrin:

[Canadian_moderate]

9. Ta-raw-nah

But I always pronounce it Toh-ron-to whenever I'm speaking to people from outside Ontario.

[HEyHEY]

12. My mom says it "Torana" and she lived in Scarbourough for 10 years

[ironflange]

14. I'll ask my in-laws, they both grew up in Milton

Incidentally, it's easy to pick out a non-Calgarian. They pronounce Calgary as it's spelled, Cal-gary, but the locals say Cal-gree. Remember that if you ever come to visit.

[HEyHEY]

15. Vancouverites say Cal-gree too

[Culture Mind]

21. i say both cal-gary and calgree

and i'm from vancouver. i'm watching the election coverage on cbc and the newscaster says both cal-gary and calgree.

[Feathered Fish]

23. Lol

That's true. Cal-gree.

[auntAgonist]

13. big smoke.

I think?

[Feathered Fish]

24. That's right. n/t

[LiberteToujours]

17. Teh-ron-toe

I say it the phoenetic way (but I'm in Alberta). When I was in Toronto, I definitely heard a lot of Tranna.

A better one is Montreal. It really sounds absurd in English compared to how it is supposed to be pronounced. The t is silent, for starters. :)

[LeftistGorilla]

18. I'm from said place....

I say it:

Tor-on-Noe

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

19. "Ninth Circle"

[SnowBack]

25. HOME...

:party: