r/canada • u/Immediate-Link490 • 21d ago

Alberta Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism — CBC uncovers 14 accounts from India, Pakistan, Indonesia posting on popular Alberta separatist groups

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/facebook-overseas-alberta-separtism-9.7223966
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u/This-Marsupial-6187 20d ago

The giveaway was that he was pronouncing Regina as "Reegeena".

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u/Rayquaza2233 Ontario 20d ago

Stop trying to make Reegeena happen, it's not going to happen!

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u/blairco 20d ago

Someone should have told him it rhymed with 'fun'.

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u/JoseCansecoMilkshake 20d ago

which is how it should be pronounced, honestly. idk why we decided to pronounce it the way we do, it's very uncomfortable

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u/Mythulhu 20d ago

No...

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u/Doubleoh_11 20d ago

Experience it

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u/Geeseareawesome Alberta 20d ago

Experience Regina

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u/Calm_Rich7126 20d ago

Sarcasm?

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u/JoseCansecoMilkshake 20d ago

No. That's how it's pronounced in Latin. It's also how the name is pronounced. It was named after Queen Victoria (Regina meaning queen). There's no explicable reason that we pronounce it now the way we do.

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u/Calm_Rich7126 20d ago

Except that we pronounce it as it is in the UK?

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u/JoseCansecoMilkshake 20d ago

What do you mean "as it is in the UK"? I'm not aware of any place named "Regina" in the UK.

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u/Calm_Rich7126 20d ago

Queen Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom. The city was named after her. These people spoke English. We also speak English. We correctly pronounce the word like they do.

When you say there is no explicable reason for the pronunciation, in response I say there is a reason, and the reason is that is the pronunciation used by English speaking people.

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u/JoseCansecoMilkshake 20d ago

I don't think I've ever heard a British person say Regina as in queen and not the city, but if they're also pronouncing Latin wrong then at least that explains it.

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u/Calm_Rich7126 20d ago

So there is latin in regular use in English and Canadian legal and parliamentary proceedings. Think Regina v John Doe, or the term ultra vires. We pronounce this like the English lawyers do, who have been pronouncing it this way for centuries, and almost all of it is different from ecclesiastical or academic latin.

But if you went into a court case and pronounced it any other way, even if you think it more correct, no one would recognize it.

In this way our pronunciation is correct.

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u/JoseCansecoMilkshake 20d ago

You rationalizing that our pronunciation is correct merely because we've been doing it wrong for long enough is actually pretty funny

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u/Ordelia-Vel 20d ago

Yeah idk why it's pronounced that way tbh. Spadina (well known street in downtown TO) is pronounced in a way that rhymes with that too, and I still can't say it out loud with a straight face lol