Amherst Street is history
New signs have gone up showing that Amherst Street is history and the street is now Rue Atateken, as is the corresponding bus route.
New signs have gone up showing that Amherst Street is history and the street is now Rue Atateken, as is the corresponding bus route.
david100 23:13 on 2019-10-21 Permalink
Pretty cool. I guess the closest phonetic pronunciation in English is aw-ta-da-ghen.
Kate 14:04 on 2019-10-22 Permalink
French Wikipedia gives it as a-de-dé-gan.
jeather 15:25 on 2019-10-22 Permalink
I don’t know about stress, but as a rule t/k/s will be pronounced as d/g/z in front of vowels, which use the standard pronunciations that European languages except English use (i is pronounced ee, etc). They only standardised the spelling recently (I believe we discussed it on this blog in the past few months), so it’s quite regular.