Toronto One Bloor West | 308.6m | 85s | Tridel | Foster + Partners

[mininamib]

I like the way the narrator pronounces Yonge Street.

 

[ethan.l.cecc]

From just north of Yonge and Shuter (none of the glass towers existed 15 years ago)

 

[Marcanadian]

Sunday:

Toronto by Marcanadian, on Flickr

 

[vinny_the_hack]

"yonj"

 

[GenerationLee]

Taken while walking home, a couple hours ago. The makes for moody scenery.

 

[GenerationLee]

"yonj"

yuunj?

 

[C-mac]

"yonj"

If you ever watched videos of youtube tourist in Toronto, many of them make that same mistake.

 

[Rascacielo]

If you ever watched videos of youtube tourist in Toronto, many of them make that same mistake.

Good thing Strachan is off the tourist radar. Even Torontonians mispronounce it.

 

[zang]

Good thing Strachan is off the tourist radar. Even Torontonians mispronounce it.

Yeah, but technically almost all Torontonians mispronounce Spadina and Roncesvalles wrong.

Language evolves. Customary moves away from the exact.

 

[evandyk]

They're wrong about Spadina. That pronunciation is reserved for the name of the museum, not the avenue or road. They're also wrong about Roncesvalles. Just because that's how you pronounce the name of the Spanish town doesn't mean that's how you pronounce the name of the Toronto street.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

"yonj"

...to be fair though, his dialect suggests he's not from around here originally.

 

[Rascacielo]

They're wrong about Spadina. That pronunciation is reserved for the name of the museum, not the avenue or road. They're also wrong about Roncesvalles. Just because that's how you pronounce the name of the Spanish town doesn't mean that's how you pronounce the name of the Toronto street.

I read somewhere that up until the late 19th C, upper class Torontonians pronounced Spadina as Spadeena (the original pronunciation), while the riff-raffs pronounced it the way we do now. Those 19th C elites would no doubt roll over in their graves if they learned that these days, even the likes of Galen Weston have succumbed to the popular taste.

 

[stjames2queenwest]

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

They're wrong about Spadina. That pronunciation is reserved for the name of the museum, not the avenue or road. They're also wrong about Roncesvalles. Just because that's how you pronounce the name of the Spanish town doesn't mean that's how you pronounce the name of the Toronto street.

...so Raunchy-Ville is not a name?

 

[UrbanAffair]

I assume the slowness at this point is due to needing the complete floor plates to be done to the roof, before we get to see an install of mechanical elements and the tuned mass damper?