[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?

 

[SkylineHorizons]

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

This is true. An ex-coworker used to always argue with me that it should be pronounced "Stratch-han", with an emphasis on that invisible second T.

 

[hawc]

 

[NIL OMNI]

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.

According to Toronto Street Names - An Illustrated Guide to Their Origins - Revised & Expanded (Leonard Wise & Allan Gould): "Spadina Ave. was laid out in 1836 by Dr. William Warren Baldwin. He named the street after his house on top of the hill, Spadina (then pronounced "Spadeena"), a word that came from the Native "espadinong," meaning hill." I don't know anyone that uses the old pronunciation, but that's apparently how it was originally said back then...

 

[Johnny Au]

August 7, 2025:

Bay and Cumberland:

Balmuto Side:

Bloor Side:

 

[C-mac]

I'm a little surprised Tridel didn't try and go for the higher approved height seeing as they're really hyping of the fact the building is 300m.

 

[SaugeenJunction]

Yesterday from Paupers: