Post: How do you pronounce 'Toronto'

[interchange42]

And, as everyone knows, Featherstonehaugh is pronounced 'fanshaw'.

Oh those funny Brits!

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[Long Island Mike]

Spelling differences-Queen's English vs. American

Everyone: Something just came to my mind today-Pronounciation or Pronunciation-could there be a Queen's English spelling difference here? - it reminded me of American spellings of commonly-used words such as Centre/Center ; Favour/Favor or Neighbourhood/Neighborhood? Can this be clarified once and for all? LI MIKE

 

[Hydrogen]

The Big Smoke.


Very Canadian.

 

[Hank]

According to dictionary.com 'pronounciation' isn't a word, so I'm going to have to side with the Admiral on this one, although I'm sure it's a commonly-made mistake.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

The OED shows the derivation as being Middle English from Old French prononciation or Latin pronuntiatio.

 

[Long Island Mike]

PRONUNCIATION it is!

Well-I guess that settles it-Pronunciation it is! LI MIKE

 

[Admiral Beez]

According to dictionary.com 'pronounciation' isn't a word, so I'm going to have to side with the Admiral on this one, although I'm sure it's a commonly-made mistake.

The use of such commonly-made mistakes are being increasingly utilized by employers to test and eliminate potential employees. For example, for my job here in Toronto I had to undertake a MsWord typed exam on several industry matters (thankfully it wasn't a hand written test, as my penmanship is dreadful). Afterward I was told that a primary goal of such testing is to weed-out those with poor literacy, grammar and/or a poor grasp of English.

At my last job in New Brunswick, our plant manager would receive resumes from university educated engineers with errors in spelling, grammar and prose. Obviously, their resumes were circle filed.

As a final example, my wife is an office secretary with impeccable spelling and literacy. Her boss, the VP, asks her vet all resumes for such errors and to dispose of any resumes that do not measure up. I guarantee you, if you had "pronounciate" on a resume or correspondence, you'd not get the job.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

RE: How do you pronounce 'Toronto'


bankrupt?

 

[Admiral Beez]

RE: How do you pronounce 'Toronto'


bankrupt?

Toronto's got plenty of income, probably more than the entire province of NB that I've just fled. What Toronto needs to control are its expenses.

 

[Oliver Tweed]

Old school pronunciation is Turr-AWN-uh. My grandfather (born and raised in TO) used to say it like that.

But most people from around here say Turr-AWN-oh. Is there much debate on this? That's pretty much all I ever hear, personally. Not many people pronounce the last "t" unless they are from somewhere else, especially the U.S. But in that case, who cares how they pronounce it? How would they know what locals say? Half the fun of travelling is figuring all that stuff out.

 

[adma]

How do you spell Toronto? R-O-L-A-I-D-S

 

[Roots_Energize]

ToronTOE Torontoes toron toe sucking


think about it (or should i say stink about it) Toronto could become the foot fetish capital of the world! truely iconic

"come to toron toe , a world of diverse wiggling toes"

"your feet belong here"

ToronTOE we got soul!
http://www.feetishes.com/preview/babygirl/baby016.jpg

 

[Roots_Energize]

Toron toe power

 

[adma]

 

[eller]

Old school pronunciation is Turr-AWN-uh. My grandfather (born and raised in TO) used to say it like that.

But most people from around here say Turr-AWN-oh. Is there much debate on this? That's pretty much all I ever hear, personally.

I grew up and still am here and pronounce it as Tor-awn-ah.