The cat’s right. Who pronounces full city names? TOR-ON-TO? No no no, T’rono.
Yup, if you’re pronouncing Calgary as a 3 syllable word, you’re doing it wrong.
But then again, there are some cities where people add letters that aren’t there, like Vangcouver
Cowgry
'churona
Sorry edit: T’Churonah
T’raw’nah
Yup, entirely valid.
I like that spelling. I may use it henceforth.
Entirely acceptable.
CH’RAWWWWWWWNAHHHHH!
Except, of course Sakskatooon
Nope, that’s just “the 'Toon”.
Stoon
Eh Mun tun.
Edmntn
Yanks: MAWN-tray-all
Anglais: MUN-tree-ul
Francais: MO-rayawOkay so technically, Montréal is about the mountain that is in the middle of the city.
Mont-Réal (Réal meaning Royal in Catalan, actually name of the mountain being Mont-Royal) Mont = Mount Réal/Royal = Royal (found this Wikipedia article about the word which is also a name for people in Québec https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Réal_(given_name) )
It was really something during the convoy in Ottawa
I was listening to their pronunciations of streets like Elgin and Colonel By and they were atrocious.
Only narcs say Ed-mon-ton or Tor-on-to. Easy way to spot 'em.
Edmontonians=YEGgers
The key is to soften/glottalize that t.
'Ed.min.ʔin
Ohh that’s a fun question mark lookin’ thing. We need that in our regular alphabet.
Wait, you guys pronounce the “d”? I thought it was em-tuhn.
Tronna
Tarannah
O-duh-wuh, Tronna, Cal-Gree,
Now I hear Rhys Darby saying it Idmintin.
This is probably my all-time favorite meme format. I just love it so much.
If its anything like the brits pronounce things…
Eh’mih’en
Port Aux Basques = Porta Bass
What about Orleans in Ontario? OR-LINZ? OR-LEANS? OR-LAY-ON? Something else?
OR-LEANS is the only version I’ve ever heard in the wild.
But then Orleans in Quebec is OR-LAY-AN
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