Edwin G. 
Do you know how to say “Toronto”?
Secret 5th choice, please comment
Symbols:
- 🇨🇦 Canadian
- 🌏 Non-Canadian
Tor-on-toe 🇨🇦
Tor-on-no 🇨🇦
Tor-on-toe 🌏
Tor-on-no 🌏
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Following my Toronto poll, I’m asking today:
How would you say “Montréal”? Secret 5th choice, feel free to comment
Symbols:
🇨🇦 Canadian
🌍 Non-Canadian
Mon-ree-al 🇨🇦
Mon-tree-all 🇨🇦
Mon-ree-al 🌍
Mon-tree-all 🌍
Poll ended at .
Let’s do another one.
This is someone’s suggestion (sorry I can’t find the post… and I will not be able to edit 😔, so thank you who ever you are!)
How would you pronounce “Calgary”?
Symbols:
🇨🇦 Canadian
🌎 Non-Canadian
P.S.: I have two other similar polls in mind 😄
| Call-gree 🇨🇦 | |
| Cal-gah-ree 🇨🇦 | |
| Call-gree 🌎 | |
| Cal-gah-ree 🌎 |
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Bruce Elrick@EdwinG None of the above? I've lived here for 30 years and pronounce it "Cal-gree" where "Cal" is pronounced like "AL" in "you can call me Al".
I've never heard people pronounce the first syllable "call" like "all".
@EdwinG Also, Alberta starts with the same "al" sound.
@virtuous_sloth Tried to think how one would write it. Failed miserably 😭
@EdwinG
That's why linguists came up with the International phonetic alphabet and tried to avoid Latin letters. Us saying “all“ is ambiguous because different people pronounce it differently.
IPA maps vowels and consonants to vocal chord, throat, cheek, tongue, and lip position and movements.
There is a slightly different way of pronouncing the first syllable, but I'm struggling to think of it!
@virtuous_sloth Yeah, but not a lot of people know how to read and write IPA (I can’t)
@EdwinG Yeah, me neither.
When I do look at them I think it would be neat to learn, but then my brain starts hurting.
I did find these handy audio pronunciation doolies on Wikipedia, though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vowel_chart_with_audio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_consonant_chart_with_audio