Brodder and I like to purposely mispronounce: paté (as "payt") and lasagna ("la-sag").
Boo and I do Chipotlé as "chi-po-tl".
Malcolm and I mispronounce everything: got = gotted, learned = learnd-ed...the list really goes on...it's our own language, really.
Visitors to Toronto call Spadina "Spa-dee-na."
And then at work the topic (of "Ja-la-pen-o") came up and someone had a great one:
"My girl friend walked in with her kids to a fast food restaurant and seeing poutine on the menu, she said 'I'd like two orders of poontang, please.'"
They definitely do not serve that at our cafeteria.
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there was a news story about this. toronto streets that are commonly mispronounced.
spadina is apparently properly pronounced "spa-dee-na"
who knew the tourists has it more accurate than us?
I need to see this story. I think it's wrong. Apparently it used to be pronounced "Spa-dee-na", but has evolved to be "Spa-die-na" (according to Wikipedia).
The only way to solve this is to find ourselves an Ojibwa.
I refuse to have an American tourist correct me. Besides, the TTC voice on the buses and subways says "Spa-die-na."
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