Okay, that was a fun poll. 15 respondants. And not a one of you got the Saskatchewan question wrong. But none of you got the Head of State question right, either. :)
1) How should you pronounce 'Montreal' in English?Montreal is pronounced a variety of different ways. Most often, it's pronounced in French, which would be hard to spell out for any English speakers out there. However, native English speaking Montrealers pronounce it "Mun-tree-all", where the MON is pronounced like the MON in Monday. (Random fact: Montreal is a bastardization of the French pronounciation of Mont Royal, which is French for Mount Royal, which is the name of the mountain on the island. Mont Royal in French actually sounds very similar to the French pronounciation of Montreal.)
And your answers:
Mount Royal - 0 (Good for you.)
Mont-Real - 1 (Ouch.)
Mon-tree-all - 6 (Two of you should have known better!)
Mun-tree-all - 8 (Very good!)
How the hell am I supposed to know? - 0
2) How should you pronounce 'Toronto' in English?Toronto. This was a trick question. There are two "proper" ways to pronounce Toronto. There's the Toronto way and the way the rest of Canada pronounces it. "Tuh-ronna" is how a Torontonian pronounces it, and from what I can tell, people in other provinces say it "Tuh-ronno". (Legend has it that "Toronto" comes from a Huron word meaning "meeting place". This is wrong. It actually comes from a Mohawk word, tkaronto, meaning "where there are trees in the water".
So says the Globe and Mail, anyways.) The point is, no one around here pronounces the second "T".
And your answers:
Tor-on-toe - 3
Tuh-ron-toe - 9
Tuh-ronno - 2 (This is how I say it.)
Tuh-ronna - 1 (This is how my Toronto cousins say it.)
What the hell is up with these names? - 0
3) That Canadian province, there, squished between Alberta and Manitoba. What's it called?You all got this right, which surprised me. Did you all have to look at a map to FIND Alberta and Manitoba and then see Saskatchewan sitting there between them? ;) Just so you know, Saskatchewan comes from a Cree word for "swift flowing river". The province is named for the
Saskatchewan River that flows through it. (Randomly, I have never used Saskatchewan so many times in a single paragraph in my entire life as I just did.)
4) Which is not a Canadian National Hockey League team?Your answers to this amused me greatly.
The Toronto Maple
Leafs is the Toronto NHL team. Due to the fact that "Maple Leafs" has become a name, rather than describing many objects (several maple leaves), this is actually grammatically correct, no matter how much it annoys me, and believe me, that's a LOT.
Your answers:
Montreal Canadiens - 1 (Ames. This is MY HOCKEY TEAM. A pox on you!)
Toronto Maple Leaves - 6 (Nicely done. :))
Calgary Flames - 1 (V, the Calgary Flames are currently in the
Stanley Cup Finals.)
Edmonton Oilers - 4 (Silly name, but the Edmonton Oilers won four consecutive Cups in the 80s. Led by a guy named Wayne Gretzky.)
I don't watch hockey and am quite lame. - 3 (Well, at least you acknowledge your lameness. ;))
And, finally...
5) Who is the Canadian Head of State?Canada's Head of State is the Queen of Canada. Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, is the Queen of Canada (and
other Commonwealth realms) as well as being the Queen of England.
Canada is a constitutional monarchy.
Thankfully, none of you voted for the
President of Canada choice. I'd have had to kill you.
(And
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commodore_zeke? You need to brush up on your governmental hierarchy. You live in OTTAWA, fer cryin' out loud!)
The best score goes to
trexphile with four out of five correct. Meanwhile,
yahtzee63 got one of four right (because she freely admitted she doesn't watch hockey).
This is fun. I should do this again, sometime.
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