0:56 I went to Spadina House for a tour, and the tour guide said that the original pronunciation is actually Spa-DEE-na. They don't know how it morphed into Spa-DYE-na as it is pronounced nowadays.
It’s not even a weird “Toronto” only word/pronunciation. It’s an actual word that shows up in any British or American dictionary and is pronounced as key in them.
It's a well known area. Trendy. And adjacent to High Park. I'm so baffled that people don't know it... it even has a nickname: Roncy. I'm floored by this... 😳🤷🏼♀️
In his book "We the North", Doug Smith wrote about how some Raptors live in a building that is connected to Scotiabank Arena by an enclosed walking path, so they don't have to go outside during the cold winters. I wonder if many of the players live like this. It pops this bubble that we have that professional athletes are really connected to their cities, when Pascal doesn't know how to pronounce Spadina after being here for 5 seasons. When Kawhi was on Serge Ibaka's cooking show, they planned on going to Caribbana, but I think that it was just for show. I don't think that Kawhi actually went. To the Raptors: Seriously. Get out of the downtown core from time to time, and explore our city. It's a really big place with lots of interesting neighborhoods. Enjoy it while you're here. You'll miss this place when you go to another city.
Great comment. A lot of athletes from all the leagues don’t really get out and about in Toronto as they do in LA or New York. It’s very sad. There’s so much Toronto has to offer but they don’t seem to care.
@@solitairedoll I hate to say this but most athletes are dumb and uncultured. Amazing at their sport, but personality and exploring is just not known to them. They’ve worked their entire lives playing sports.
@@ethantremblay3274 Sadly, you're 100% right. Most of them were driven to be pro athletes from an early age, and they don't bother with growing up and learning as a normal human being. They don't have any incentive to be smart, because they are focused on their sport and polishing their image for endorsements. A minority of them are well informed, but many sportsmen are just dumb jocks.
A lot of west end people and east end people don’t go downtown like that unless they have to work downtown or they have business to attend to downtown. I haven’t been in downtown Toronto for like 3 years. I think I’ve been to Vaughan more to be honest.
You may be on to something. Also gotta remember the nba season is mostly in the winter so I doubt these guys ever leave their condo/home to go explore the city
Dr. William Baldwin built a family home on the then two-hundred-acre property in 1818. He called it Spadina (pronounced spadeena), after the native term espadinong, meaning “hill.”
I'm in Toronto and I still have no idea how to pronounce Quay. OH BTW YOU'RE WRONG ABOUT SPADINA IT IS "SPA-Dee-NA" after the person it was named after - we don't pronounce it that way on the regular lol but that was the intention. We just got used to saying it incorrectly.
fun fact, Strachan, Spadina are actually pronounced wrong by most Torontonians. i.e. how Siakam said "Spadina" is actually the correct (original) way and Strachan, a scottish name has a hard "k" sound on the "ch".
Actually the way they were pronouncing Roncesvalles was nearer the mark since Torontonians have said it wrong like forever because English was the language used. It is after all Spanish
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Banton is a real west end yute....he doesn't even know the DT roads 🤣🤣
😆💯
Delano "D-Rex" Banton straight outta M.O
😂
I was juss saying that still like hooly so weird tho smdh 😭
came to type this loool
1:54 Dragic had me rollin’ hahaha “Drrahg”
thats the correct way to pronounce his name tho
You can tell OG gets out the most
OG be out looking for them ladies in the the sundresses
London tings ye
@@gdbssa in Delano 's case... Toronto mans tings
Lol
He's dating my sisters friend from Sauga - he gets out lol
og only knows Etobicoke because hes pipping some shorties in that area
OG knew the most out of everyone tho
@@EvanReichert hoes in different area codes
@@Ravenish619 LMFAOO
OG laying pipe in Etobicoke
LOL
When Dalano said “fham where is this”!?!?!
Banton never left the block LMAO
Mans dem a real yardie LoL
Banton is literally from here lol😂😂😂. I guess he never really left Rex
Where is rex
@@NIMSINS Rexdale is a neighborhood in Toronto, its where Delano is from.
@@NIMSINS Rex is in the west end few mins away from the airport
Everyone knows Spadina because the subway be like “Spadina, Spadina station”
🤣
You think these guys take the subway? :D
@@Y_hass some do actually
Been to multiple cars with navigation with no aa/ac feature and nav always pronounce it spadeena.
"Doors will open on the right"
Scottie going from South Florida to Canada is always going to be funny
As someone who made the exact same move, laughing at Scottie has brought me great joy lmao
Chinguacousy rd in Brampton would’ve been hilarious
Lived in Btown from '87 - '05. Can confirm! LoL
bruh, most of the Raptor players live in South Etobicoke in those huge condos. So it makes sense they all know Etobicoke. Represent.
they moved em all to Marine Parade after the championship parade haha
Dalano only knows streets west of the humber river, the 45 bus doesn't go east
0:56 I went to Spadina House for a tour, and the tour guide said that the original pronunciation is actually Spa-DEE-na. They don't know how it morphed into Spa-DYE-na as it is pronounced nowadays.
Dragic pronounces it like the true Slav he is :D
Banton is a real west end man. They don’t know DT roads 😂
The fact that Delono got Queen's Quay wrong kills me
He's trolling for sure
It’s not even a weird “Toronto” only word/pronunciation. It’s an actual word that shows up in any British or American dictionary and is pronounced as key in them.
Pascal has been here long enough he should know this. Dalano? Damn Bro. You this is your town!
Ion think it’s that deep bro lmao
Pascal definitely never leaves his condo
Come on, Dalano only takes the 45 TTC bus from Rexdale
Honestly. Living in one part of the city all you life has an affect on what you know. Toronto is big
when you’re life doesn’t revolve downtown, these names are barely known/hard to say.
Siakam played in Toronto his whole career and he struggled with all the street names while GTJ cruised through it.
GTJ has been around Toronto before as a kid, don't forget his dad used to play for the Raptors
Funny how they all got Etobicoke at the end 🤣
DO MORE OF THESE
Same Dalano, im from toronto and i havent heard of Roncesvalles lol
Probably one of the dark shoet alley in DT Toronto. Lol
It's a well known area. Trendy. And adjacent to High Park. I'm so baffled that people don't know it... it even has a nickname: Roncy. I'm floored by this... 😳🤷🏼♀️
Roncesvalles is dope, laid back strip between 2 neighbourhoods, lotta nice restaurants, cleaner and quieter than more central places
Pricey area next to high park and parkdale.
@@MsFreudianSlip I've never heard of it either lol. I'm 30 and always lived here
How's Siakam been here for 5 years and not know how to pronounce Spadina...
That was Ibaka's favorite good to get chinese food...surprised Siakam didn't know the street name. It is one of Toronto's most famous avenues.
free.dumb
To be fair, a lot of maps apps would pronounce it like "spadeeeena".
@@Cameron_F It is originally pronounced SPADEENA. Family name.
Some Chinese immigrants pronounce it "spen-dann-na"
Lmao Goran Dragic, what a player he was for us.😂
New raptors content. Let’s gooooo.
Love this team
Chris Boucher at 1:50 like "wtf?"
Etobicoke is a borough not a city
I hope the next episode includes: Yonge, Grosvenor, Vaughan, Trethewey, Euclid, Wellesley, Tecumseth and Bloor.
keel, Allen, gerrad, crawford, Bathurst, Wellesley, Colwell Ave, and Huron st
Love it! Lots of cool streets in Toronto!
Need more of these this season PLEASE !!
In his book "We the North", Doug Smith wrote about how some Raptors live in a building that is connected to Scotiabank Arena by an enclosed walking path, so they don't have to go outside during the cold winters. I wonder if many of the players live like this. It pops this bubble that we have that professional athletes are really connected to their cities, when Pascal doesn't know how to pronounce Spadina after being here for 5 seasons. When Kawhi was on Serge Ibaka's cooking show, they planned on going to Caribbana, but I think that it was just for show. I don't think that Kawhi actually went.
To the Raptors: Seriously. Get out of the downtown core from time to time, and explore our city. It's a really big place with lots of interesting neighborhoods. Enjoy it while you're here. You'll miss this place when you go to another city.
Great comment. A lot of athletes from all the leagues don’t really get out and about in Toronto as they do in LA or New York. It’s very sad. There’s so much Toronto has to offer but they don’t seem to care.
@@solitairedoll agree 100%
@@solitairedoll I hate to say this but most athletes are dumb and uncultured. Amazing at their sport, but personality and exploring is just not known to them. They’ve worked their entire lives playing sports.
Money is wasted on the rich.
@@ethantremblay3274 Sadly, you're 100% right. Most of them were driven to be pro athletes from an early age, and they don't bother with growing up and learning as a normal human being. They don't have any incentive to be smart, because they are focused on their sport and polishing their image for endorsements. A minority of them are well informed, but many sportsmen are just dumb jocks.
my nana lived in Etobicoke loved going down to visit , rip
If Dalano doesn’t know where it is, it doesn’t exist
That's what I'm sayin
On god
A lot of west end people and east end people don’t go downtown like that unless they have to work downtown or they have business to attend to downtown. I haven’t been in downtown Toronto for like 3 years. I think I’ve been to Vaughan more to be honest.
@@mikeyjames Ikr I never go downtown
should have asked them how to pronounce "Toronto"
"To-ron-to"= 0 pts
"Toronno"=1 pt
"Tronno"= 2pts
lol facts
I grew up in Roncesvalles ave. Great neighborhood.
1:00 the way he tried to pronounce Spadina had me LMAO
damn i wish they threw in Bathurst because I hear some people say Bat-hurst and not Bath-urst
Anyone remember when DeRozan and Joey Graham used to live in 5 and 10?
they all used to get tattooed at Pleasure & Pain before it burned down
Thanks I really enjoyed this 🤣
As a Canadian that lives in Ontario, Sarnia. 3 hours away from Toronto it's hard to say street names.
Haha they must all live in Etobicoke
You may be on to something. Also gotta remember the nba season is mostly in the winter so I doubt these guys ever leave their condo/home to go explore the city
They definitely hang close to Etobicoke. I have seen Powell at Burger Priest🤣
Chris Bouchers face is hilarious 🤣😂😆
So inspirational
i've been calling roncesvalles raussalless the whole time 😂
Fresh raptors content, let's gooo 🔥🚨
I was waiting for Trethewey to come out lmao 🤣
Part 2 get them to pronounce Trethewey
OG slaying around when he's not playing
I moved from Toronto in March. Im in Vancouver Island . i am missing Toronto rn haha awesome video !!! The pronous kil me haha
my guy OG Anonuby don't flinch
boucher and og prnounced quay differently but the sound makes it seem like they both got it right what is it
Spadeena is the original pronunciation of Spadina.
Dr. William Baldwin built a family home on the then two-hundred-acre property in 1818. He called it Spadina (pronounced spadeena), after the native term espadinong, meaning “hill.”
I'm in Toronto and I still have no idea how to pronounce Quay. OH BTW YOU'RE WRONG ABOUT SPADINA IT IS "SPA-Dee-NA" after the person it was named after - we don't pronounce it that way on the regular lol but that was the intention. We just got used to saying it incorrectly.
Its named after an ojibwe word, not person tho.
Look at pascal man!!! how happy he is in 6ix...some People want masai to trade him 🤦🏻
Put Trethewey on this LMAO
1:38 dragic shows his wakanda accent
I knew queens quay would be one of the options.
Yeahh!! Strachan is a tough one! Took me 2 years in this city to understand what the heck people were talking about 🤣🤣
wtf is this name man. people be putting funny names up there
@@niteshkatwal5428 Damn right.
Ahhh man, he shoulda hit the new guys with the Etibicoke sign
Spadina is a family name, and it's pronounced SPADEENA according to the family.
OG be out here in these streets 🤣🤣
THESE GUYS ARE SO FUNNY
OG holding it down!
C'mon Dalano... everyone else can get a pass but Rexdale's finest??
Pascal "spa-DINA" like the TTC 😂😂😂
He def has a shorty named Dina
I would’ve cried of laughter if they put Tretheway on there 🤣
Trethewey
He forgot Grosvenor and Tecumseth.
Tecumseth not in Toronto boy
@@Ban00 The street is son
Chinguacousy should be here
Facts
Ettie-be-coke (“Don’t f*ck With cats”)
I remember that! lol They completely messed up the name a few times in that series.
You're a legend if you already knew right away one of them was gonna be Roncesvalles.
You should have thrown them "Nanticoke" right after Etobicoke. Which, of course, is pronounced NAN-te-coke. Like, WTF Ontario?
Love it
Should have included Mississauga ahahaha
Trethewey didn't make the cut 🤦 everyone would have failed that.
Ikr? That's my street
It's nice that at least one of these guys has an education
post game interviews are boring.. just get players to pronounce Toronto street names instead.
fun fact, Strachan, Spadina are actually pronounced wrong by most Torontonians. i.e. how Siakam said "Spadina" is actually the correct (original) way and Strachan, a scottish name has a hard "k" sound on the "ch".
Spa Dee Na,and Strackn,I'm not too concerned with how locals have messed it up,lol.
Should have asked them to pronounce Tretheway... chi-chi-way 😅
Spadina was originally pronounced as spadeena. So siakam is right.
Imagine having Trethewey Drive
Facts 🤣🤣🤣🤣
2:10 😂😂
Actually the way they were pronouncing Roncesvalles was nearer the mark since Torontonians have said it wrong like forever because English was the language used. It is after all Spanish
How did the one kid from REXDALE mess up Queens Quay ? 🤣
wait quay is pronounce like "key"? my life is a lie
Damn how they do roncy like that
Og was so good
Should’ve done a good/hood one: Tretheway
No Tretheway? Lol
These are cool dudes...
They really Stra-chan the players language abilities here
PLS siakam saying spadina the 2nd time
"Just Drag." 😵💫
D-Rex never left Rex? LOL
How long Pascal been living there?😂
I thought Banton was supposed to be a Toronto boy 😂
Should’ve told them to pronounce Trethewey
dragic made ma day😂
This video should've been done with Toronto mans slang instead.
DATS MY HOOD lmao pascal