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brinshannaraOkay, 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.
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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 totrexphile 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.
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
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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Date: 2004-05-29 01:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-29 02:03 am (UTC)One out of four isn't bad, considering NO one got the Head of State question and the pronounciation ones can be argued over for days.
I mean, hey. You know how to spell Saskatchewan. It took me YEARS to spell that sucker properly. :)
And that's all I have to say about it.
Date: 2004-05-29 02:24 am (UTC)Re: And that's all I have to say about it.
Date: 2004-05-29 02:41 am (UTC)"The Queen is Queen not only of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories, but also of the following realms: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, St Christopher and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu."
But I'll buy you a cookie or something if it makes you feel better. ;)
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Date: 2004-05-29 02:36 am (UTC)And hey, Yahtzee has an LJ! And through hers, I've found Rheanna's too! That's just so cool.
- Z
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Date: 2004-05-29 02:43 am (UTC)... but really glad you know she's the Head of State!
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Date: 2004-05-29 03:36 am (UTC)And now I totally don't feel as bad about screwing up the Head of State question. :)
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Date: 2004-05-30 08:05 pm (UTC)....Oh.
Well, no worries. It's already been well established that I suck.
- Z
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Date: 2004-05-29 05:03 am (UTC)And of course I can't pronounce anything, I'm from Ohio. We make everything sound flat.
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Date: 2004-05-29 05:45 am (UTC)A bill gets introduced and voted on in our House of Commons (like your Congress), then gets passed to the Senate. Assuming the Senate okays the bill, it then goes to the Governor General for approval. Technically, she can refuse to pass it, but I don't think any Governor General has refused to sign a bill into law in decades, if not a century.
Just as important, though, in order to dissolve the current sitting of Parliament (like when an election is called, which just happened here last week), the Prime Minister must GO TO THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S and ask for her to dissolve Parliament. The Governor General will also open Parliament when it reconvenes.
If the Queen is in the country, however, she's supposed to do all the ceremonial stuff. She's opened and dissolved Parliament here before, I think.
So while they have no usable power, the reigning monarch still is relevant, even if most of those duties fall to their representative, the Governor General. :) </random Canadian Government course>
Flat, eh? I bet you say "dot com" as "daht cahm", don't you? ;) Then again, I say "sore-ee" for "sorry". Ah, the two extremes. :)
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Date: 2004-05-30 01:39 pm (UTC)I'm dismayed that I answered incorrectly concerning the pronunciation of Toronto. I speak to Canadian customers daily, and one of the questions I always ask is, "Where are you located?" I've heard the answer, "Toronto, Ontario" enough times to know better.
*shrugs* Oh, well. I guess turnabout is fair play - people are constantly mispronouncing the name of my home state as "Illa-noise" instead of "Illa-noy". :)
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Date: 2004-06-01 08:46 am (UTC)And, in your defence, if people are calling someone and trying to speak so they'll be understood, they may well put more effort into saying Toronto. :) But next Toronto caller you get, listen for the Tuhronna. :)