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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Nope. Cal-Gary puts the emphasis on the wrong syllable and pronounces the "ga" wrong.
Its Cal-Gah-Ree. The middle syllable is quick and sometimes pronounced "guh".
Cal-gree skips the middle syllable altogether and can be acceptable when speaking fast but isn't really right either. Not quite a Toronto with a silent second t situation, but close.
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Actually its quite common in english to skip that third syllable
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The second "a" in Calgary sits in what the field of phonetics calls a schwa vowel sound – the schwa is similar to an "eh" sound. There's a rule in English that when a stress vowel (Cal), is followed by a schwa (ga) and then an unstressed syllable (ry), that schwa sound is reduced the more often the word is used. Eventually, it can be dropped completely.
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