Timmies coffee supplier got bought out by mcdonalds iirc? Who then proceed to burn the shit out of the coffee so any quality it might have is unrecognizable
lol my Ontario coworker once explained it to me this way: the closer you get to Toronto, the less syllables it has. Perhaps BC is just too far away to know the real pronunciation
From an information theory lens, that makes perfect sense. Proximity to a city is proportional to the incentive and ability to increase information density in a city's name. The closer you are to Toronto, the more often the name comes up, so greater incentive to shorten it. And the closer you are, the more likely people are to know what you're talking about when you say "TRONO" because if there's ambiguities, we usually assume it's the one that's closer.
I'm American and it would never occur to me to say it any other way than trono. I'm from New York though, maybe we're more prone to skipping a few letters here and there (it's maha'm, not Manhattan)
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PBS has been feeding me Canadian culture since I first saw Red Green late one Saturday night in the late 90s. I can blend in seamlessly.
(Please let me stay.)
Just put on plaid and a toque and talk about how much better Timmies's coffee used to be and nobody will be able to tell the difference.
Timmies coffee supplier got bought out by mcdonalds iirc? Who then proceed to burn the shit out of the coffee so any quality it might have is unrecognizable
Burger King
BK bought Tims, but their coffee supplier went to McD
I give my height in cms because I want to be the change! One day we will free ourselves from these imperial shackles!
Hey! They say Toronto in BC
They are allowed to be wrong. It's their right as a Canadian.
lol my Ontario coworker once explained it to me this way: the closer you get to Toronto, the less syllables it has. Perhaps BC is just too far away to know the real pronunciation
From an information theory lens, that makes perfect sense. Proximity to a city is proportional to the incentive and ability to increase information density in a city's name. The closer you are to Toronto, the more often the name comes up, so greater incentive to shorten it. And the closer you are, the more likely people are to know what you're talking about when you say "TRONO" because if there's ambiguities, we usually assume it's the one that's closer.
Oh, yeah, Vancouver boy here. We say it wrong on purpose. Why? Because fuck the Leafs! /s
When they say they're from the prairies but they don't call it Skatchwin
I'm American and it would never occur to me to say it any other way than trono. I'm from New York though, maybe we're more prone to skipping a few letters here and there (it's maha'm, not Manhattan)
"It's an Albany expression."