magnumpi

Ok you lot who live in or around Toronto, how do you say it now you been here a while.

Tor-ron-toe.

Or

Trono.

Or

Tron-toe.

Peterfrombournemouth

it`s Trono , of course . I will never forget when I came here 35 years ago and our Air Canada pilot announced welcome to Trono , my family and I had a chuckle , but it soon became the accepted pronunciation

magnumpi

Yup. That's what I keep saying now. But....OH Insists it's Tore-ron-toe. Lol.

Novocastrian

It's homophonic with the capital of Albania, Tirana.

JamesM

I would say it's more teronoe than Trono.

Novocastrian

Off topic (about time already) but it always puzzles me that the forenames Dawn and Don are indistinguishable to Torontonians (perhaps to all Canadians, I don't know).

Tony-the-Tigger

Like that!

magnumpi

Ha ha. Whatever guys.

Ok what about tomato

are you still saying , toe-mar-toe.

Or are you now saying tomaydo?

I now don't feel as stupid saying tomaydo when ordering my sub anymore.

phat-dave

Erin and Aaron always makes me laugh

magnumpi

Yeh that comedy duo are 5* dude

Dorothy

I'm born and raised in Southern Ontario. It's Terono. I've just asked my Oakville raised husband and listened to myself and it's definitely Terono.
How would you pronounce Dawn and Don differently?
Same with Erin and Aaron. How are they pronounced differently? Here in Australia both Dawn/Don and Erin/Aaron are pronounced the same as each other.

ergyngfeld

Trunnoe!

JonboyE

Erin is pronounced with a short e as is step. Aaron with a long a as in stray.

Dawn is pronounced with an awe in the middle - it rhymes with thorn. Don, however, has a short o and rhymes with none.

Novocastrian

Couldn't have put it better myself. Perhaps.

But to return the thread to things for Torontonians, I discovered a superb Indian restaurant last night, a bit by default.

Our fave Indian has been Jaipur at East Beaver Creek, just north of highway 7, since it opened in 2003. We were planning on that last night, but when I phoned to make sure it was open on Good Friday, the number was out of service. Horror, on further checking it's gone out of business.

Now I know why. Another much better Indian, much, much, much better is now just down the road at 760E Hwy 7. It's called The Host and serves the best Indian food I've ever had.

Aside from the usual Brit-Indian stuff there are numerous dishes on the menu that I've never heard of. We tried a starter (unfortunately I wasn't taking notes) but it was delicious and quite different from the standard stuff.

We were less adventuress on the main courses (for reasons of comparison) but they were superb.

We'll be going back there (very often).

And it's still T'rana.

Dorothy

So, it's Airin and A-ron then. And Dorn and Dun. Right?

And it's still Terono.