Do you know how to say “Toronto”?

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

@the5thColumnist Choices were made 😆

I’m limited to 4

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

@Edelruth I’m limited to 4 choices, so choices were made 😆

[joshin4colours@mastodon.art]

@EdwinG Tran-na

[linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io]

@EdwinG I visited "Toronno" in 2005 and got educated, and there are always Blue Jays games to keep me on my T-Os.

[dilmandila@mograph.social]

@EdwinG Toe-ron-toe

[anguadelphine@mk.absturztau.be]

@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca

I voted Tor on toe, but usually pronounce it To-ron-toe. Brit.

[karendorman@mastodon.sdf.org]

@EdwinG

Trahna

[anarchaeopteryx@gamepad.club]

@EdwinG As someone who lives there, Tran-na is the correct prononciation but Tron-no is acceptable. 😁

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@EdwinG I always struggle with how to spell the pronunciation, usually land around Chronna or thereabouts.

But in talking about it just this morning, it occurred to me how close it is to "trauma". Say trauma, then switch the m for n, and you're very close.

[karendorman@mastodon.sdf.org]

@EdwinG

Trahna

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@EdwinG @Chigaze Years ago, I heard that people from Sarnia say "sar-NEE-uh". I've never had to be there to find out.

[mayintoronto@beige.party]

@EdwinG m8 no T's or O's.

[djfiander@code4lib.social]

@EdwinG tra-nah

[peterludemann@mathstodon.xyz]

@EdwinG Even non-Torontonians know the answer. (At least, Canadian non-Torontonians)
BTW, visiting Americans do some strange things to Nanaimo and Youbou, and almost nobody gets Tsawwassan even approximately right (Wikipedia is definitely wrong).

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

@AnguaDelphine I chose “Tor” so that it doesn’t sound like “to” 🙂

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

@ZenHeathen I mean… is “trauma” for Toronto wrong though?

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

@mayintoronto 😅

Wait until I do “Can you spell the city where the Lester B. Pearson International Airport is located with no help” 🤪

[auxonic@ottawa.place]

@EdwinG @mayintoronto no Ts or Os in Mississauga

[driusan@doomscroller.social]

@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca tchrawna

[driusan@doomscroller.social]

@PatrickoftheG@mastodon.social @EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca Little known fact: that song is 100% accurate.