Toronto

== Toponymy ==
{{Main|Name of Toronto}}
The word ''Toronto'' has been recorded with various spellings in French and English, including ''Tarento'', ''Tarontha'', ''Taronto'', ''Toranto'', ''Torento'', ''Toronto'', and ''Toronton''.{{sfn|Guillet|1969|p=49}} ''Taronto'' referred to "The Narrows", a channel of water through which [[Lake Simcoe]] discharges into [[Lake Couchiching]] where the Huron had planted tree saplings to corral fish. This narrows was called {{lang|moh|tkaronto}} by the [[Mohawk people|Mohawk]], meaning "where there are trees standing in the water",{{sfn|Natural Resources Canada}}<ref name="etymology">{{cite web |title=The real story of how Toronto got its name |url=http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/education/toronto_e.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061016222541/http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/education/toronto_e.php |archive-date=October 16, 2006 |access-date=December 8, 2006 |website=geonnames.nrcan.gc.ca |publisher=[[Natural Resources Canada]] (2005)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Jeff |date=October 17, 2003 |title=A defining moment for tkaronto |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-defining-moment-for-tkaronto/article18432992/ |url-access=registration |access-date=January 19, 2021 |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303051042/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-defining-moment-for-tkaronto/article18432992/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and was recorded as early as 1615 by [[Samuel de Champlain]].{{sfn|Natural Resources Canada: Canada, Provinces & Territories: The naming of their capital cities}} The word "Toronto", meaning "plenty", also appears in a 1632 French lexicon of the [[Wyandot language|Huron language]], which is also an Iroquoian language.{{sfn|Hounsom|1970|p=26}} It also appears on French maps referring to various locations, including Georgian Bay, Lake Simcoe, and several rivers.{{sfn|Hounsom|1970|p=27}} A [[portage]] route from Lake Ontario to [[Lake Huron]] running through this point, known as the [[Toronto Carrying-Place Trail]], led to widespread use of the name.

The pronunciation of the city is broadly {{IPAc-en|audio=EN-Toronto.ogg|t|ə|ˈ|r|ɒ|n|t|oʊ|}} {{respell|tə|RON|toh}}, which locals pronounce {{IPAc-en|t|ə|ˈ|r|ɒ|n|oʊ|}} or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|r|ɒ|n|oʊ|}}, leaving the second 't' silent.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bergin |first=Caitlin |url=https://cla-acl.ca/pdfs/resumes-2022-abstracts/Bergin.pdf |title=Chranna? Turono? Toe-ron-toe? Sociophonetic perception in the pronunciation of "Toronto" |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701021907/https://cla-acl.ca/pdfs/resumes-2022-abstracts/Bergin.pdf |archivedate=July 1, 2022 |publisher=Carleton University }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Crystal |first=David |year=1995 |title=Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language |location=New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=341}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gallinger |first1=Zack |last2=Motskin |first2=Arik |url=https://lah.elearningontario.ca/CMS/public/exported_courses/HSP3C/exported/HSP3CU04/HSP3CU04/HSP3CU04A01/_teacher/ThisisHowCanadaTalks-The10and3.pdf |title=This is How Canada Talks |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230817151549/https://lah.elearningontario.ca/CMS/public/exported_courses/HSP3C/exported/HSP3CU04/HSP3CU04/HSP3CU04A01/_teacher/ThisisHowCanadaTalks-The10and3.pdf |archivedate=August 17, 2023 |journal=The 10 and 3 |date=June 1, 2018}}</ref>