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<title>blogTO Recent Comments: The Undertow: Eglinton vs. Eglington</title>
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<title>Drew</title>
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Re: Ron-says-veils.

Roncesvalles is named after a Spanish village, it isn't an English word.  That said, I'm sure "Ron-see" or "Ron-cess-ville" is accurate.

I've never noticed a local with a veil.]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:30:34 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Doug</title>
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Then there's "Balloil" Street... I could never bring myself to pronounce Balliol Street the way many locals did (and probably still do).]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:09:03 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Danielle</title>
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Hah, Yonge and Eligible, I love the proliferation of that term!

WHEN did Toonie Sandwich place close? I worked until September of this year at Yonge and Eg, spending on average 40-50 hours a week between two retail jobs and that was my happy place!]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:54:46 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Dax</title>
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Lately i've been calling it 'Young & Eligible'.

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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:15:55 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Andrew Jeanes</title>
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I would be very careful about trusting anything I read in a book by Ron Brown. He plays fast and loose with his research and often puts a premium on telling a good story over good historical scholarship.

One of the things that's always appealed to me about Toronto culture was the eccentric pronunciations of place and street names. When I moved to my current street, I pronounced it "Tichester" as it would be pronounced in Britain. After a few funny looks I learned that here it's pronounced "Tie-chester." And let us say nothing more about Ron-says-veils.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:15:40 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Steve M</title>
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As a kid it was always Eglington to my ear and I wouldn't be surprised to know that my relatives were mispronouncing it (I have to correct my Mom on Queen's Kway from time to time).

It wasn't until I was working at Yonge and Eglinton that I noticed the missing "G".  For someone who takes a care in proper pronunciation (I am frequently mocked by my Toronto friends for enunciating the second "T" in Toronto) it came as a complete shock. I was sure it was a conspiracy - someone had removed all the damn gs overnight.

 

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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:28:59 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Adam Sobolak</title>
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Don't forget the Black Uhuru reggae classic, "Youth Of Eglington"...]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:27:52 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Ian</title>
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Thanks for that picture, Jamie! Tim Hortons isn't exactly a paragon of perfect grammar themselves, either, since they dropped the apostrophe from "Horton's."]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:29:38 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Tanja</title>
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Hah... intersting to know!  

I'm pretty picky about pronunciation and it drives me crazy how lazy people can be with it -- which leads to these kinds of problem and further deterioration of our spoken conversations.  

I remember having a debate over the name when I worked for a press org that was in the CFL building up there. We ended up having to go out to the street to prove our point with the streetsigns, but then, on the hydro pole, nearby were driving school posters that spelled it with a g. oy!   ]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:05:11 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Michael</title>
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Kinda like sandwich and sangwich.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:01:27 PST</pubDate>
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<title>jamie</title>
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Some closed businesses can't decide on the spelling either, such as the recently-shuttered <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbcurio/364270889/in/set-72057594111617838/" target="_blank">Tim Hortons east of Yonge.</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:50:56 PST</pubDate>
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