joeclark
New Member
Subject line says it all: Since nobody else was making a public list after I asked the LazyWeb to do it in several places, let’s start here. I wish we had real HTML to use, but forum software is notoriously bad at that. In difficult cases I will use International Phonetic Alphabet, which I’m sure you’ll all enjoy.
501 Queen (and related)
31 Greenwood
Mountnoel Ave. is two syllables and has nothing to do with Christmas (Noël)
Subway
All subway lines
Stop announcing station names? As questions? “The next station is Queen’ Park?â€
501 Queen (and related)
- Sumach St. is not pronounced “sumickâ€
- Sackville St. has an [ɪ] as last vowel, not a schwa
31 Greenwood
Mountnoel Ave. is two syllables and has nothing to do with Christmas (Noël)
Subway
- Chester is two syllables, primary stress on the first, with a schwa as last vowel and no aspirated T
- Bloor is one syllable, not two; it is not pronounced “bluewerâ€
- Bathurst has no phoneme [h]
- Summerhill is not two words with equal primary stress and a pause between them; it is not Summer… Hill
All subway lines
Stop announcing station names? As questions? “The next station is Queen’ Park?â€