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.
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.
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... 😳🤷🏼♀️
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
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
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
1:54 Dragic had me rollin’ hahaha “Drrahg”
thats the correct way to pronounce his name tho
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
When Dalano said “fham where is this”!?!?!
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
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
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"
Chinguacousy rd in Brampton would’ve been hilarious
Lived in Btown from '87 - '05. Can confirm! LoL
Banton never left the block LMAO
Mans dem a real yardie 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
Dragic pronounces it like the true Slav he is :D
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.
Banton is a real west end man. They don’t know DT roads 😂
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.
DO MORE OF THESE
Funny how they all got Etobicoke at the end 🤣
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
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.
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
Need more of these this season PLEASE !!
Love this team
Lmao Goran Dragic, what a player he was for us.😂
Chris Boucher at 1:50 like "wtf?"
New raptors content. Let’s gooooo.
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"
Love it! Lots of cool streets in Toronto!
my nana lived in Etobicoke loved going down to visit , rip
Etobicoke is a borough not a city
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.
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
I grew up in Roncesvalles ave. Great neighborhood.
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
should have asked them how to pronounce "Toronto"
"To-ron-to"= 0 pts
"Toronno"=1 pt
"Tronno"= 2pts
lol facts
i've been calling roncesvalles raussalless the whole time 😂
Thanks I really enjoyed this 🤣
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
As a Canadian that lives in Ontario, Sarnia. 3 hours away from Toronto it's hard to say street names.
So inspirational
OG slaying around when he's not playing
Chris Bouchers face is hilarious 🤣😂😆
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.
I was waiting for Trethewey to come out lmao 🤣
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
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🤣
Part 2 get them to pronounce Trethewey
Fresh raptors content, let's gooo 🔥🚨
my guy OG Anonuby don't flinch
I moved from Toronto in March. Im in Vancouver Island . i am missing Toronto rn haha awesome video !!! The pronous kil me haha
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.”
OG be out here in these streets 🤣🤣
Ahhh man, he shoulda hit the new guys with the Etibicoke sign
Love it
OG holding it down!
Look at pascal man!!! how happy he is in 6ix...some People want masai to trade him 🤦🏻
I knew queens quay would be one of the options.
I would’ve cried of laughter if they put Tretheway on there 🤣
You're a legend if you already knew right away one of them was gonna be Roncesvalles.
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.
1:38 dragic shows his wakanda accent
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.
Spadina is a family name, and it's pronounced SPADEENA according to the family.
Put Trethewey on this LMAO
Pascal "spa-DINA" like the TTC 😂😂😂
He def has a shorty named Dina
THESE GUYS ARE SO FUNNY
C'mon Dalano... everyone else can get a pass but Rexdale's finest??
Chinguacousy should be here
Facts
He forgot Grosvenor and Tecumseth.
Tecumseth not in Toronto boy
@@Ban00 The street is son
Should have included Mississauga ahahaha
Og was so good
Trethewey
You should have thrown them "Nanticoke" right after Etobicoke. Which, of course, is pronounced NAN-te-coke. Like, WTF Ontario?
Sweet!
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.
D-Rex never left Rex? LOL
Spadina was originally pronounced as spadeena. So siakam is right.
These are cool dudes...
It's nice that at least one of these guys has an education
Should have asked them to pronounce Tretheway... chi-chi-way 😅
How did the one kid from REXDALE mess up Queens Quay ? 🤣
2:10 😂😂
Trethewey didn't make the cut 🤦 everyone would have failed that.
Ikr? That's my street
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
Imagine having Trethewey Drive
Facts 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Should’ve told them to pronounce Trethewey
post game interviews are boring.. just get players to pronounce Toronto street names instead.
Should’ve done a good/hood one: Tretheway
No Tretheway? Lol
DATS MY HOOD lmao pascal
I thought Banton was supposed to be a Toronto boy 😂
They really Stra-chan the players language abilities here
wait quay is pronounce like "key"? my life is a lie
dragic made ma day😂
ehhh my last name is Strachan. I get the mispronunciation all the time lol
This video should've been done with Toronto mans slang instead.
boucher and og prnounced quay differently but the sound makes it seem like they both got it right what is it
How long Pascal been living there?😂
I said Spadina the same way as Siakam. It sounds like it has Latin origin, and thats how you would pronounce it. I aint from Toronto tho