Toronto Berczy Park Revitalization | ?m | ?s

[skycandy]

In increasing order of 'importance/interest'. ;-)

Notice the spout above the tongue.

 

[skycandy]

Morning updates...

Birth of a mini 'berm'.

Fantastic expanse of tri-coloured stonework.

Nice attention to detail. Mulch on all new (and mature) trees around the site.

Silva cell installation in SW corner.

This speaks (barks) for itself.

 

[Hamiltonian]

... So it's pronounced "Bear-chi" Park right?

 

[Waterloo_Guy]

... So it's pronounced "Bear-chi" Park right?

I always thought it was burr-zee.

 

[Razz]

November 14, 2016:

 

[DSC]

I always thought it was burr-zee.

Yes.

 

[Towered]

This was discussed a while back. It's "bear-chi".

 

[LUVIT!]

Yes it was discussed it is burr-zee

 

[interchange42]

Yes, it was discussed on page 14. Bear-chi.

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[isaidso]

Burr-zee it is then. I can bring myself to say bear-chi.

 

[Tulse]

To the extent one can believe Wikipedia, the article on Berczy Village (which was named after the park's William Berczy) claims his name is indeed pronounced "burr-zee".

 

[Towered]

I can tell you that "burr-zee" is absolutely wrong and makes one sounds ignorant.

 

[UpperAvenue]

It's pronounced "berk-zee (-see)" - at least based on a presentation I went to on the eponymous William Berczy from a local historian.

 

[interchange42]

I'm now wavering on the "bear-chi" thing, since looking a little more into Berczy's background. If it were a real Hungarian name, sure, ask a Hungarian how to pronounce it. But it's not; William Berczy was not named that at birth in Germany, his name was Johann Albrecht Ulrich Moll. How'd he get his new name? This entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography says this:

Much of the early life of William Berczy, one of the more colourful characters in the history of Upper Canada, is rather obscure. The son of a prominent diplomat, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Austria) in 1762 and the University of Jena (Friedrich Schiller University) in 1766. In his later life Berczy wrote accounts of his education and youthful travels, but it is difficult to determine to what degree the stories of his adventures are factual since he had a tendency to add fictional touches. If one of his writings is taken at face value, while on a diplomatic mission to Poland in the 1760s he had to hide in a Turkish harem and was captured by a Hungarian bandit. It may have been at this time that his nickname, Bertie, became Bertzie (in Hungarian, Berczy). This was to be the name by which he was known in Upper and Lower Canada.​

So who knows how he pronounced it. Our disagreement is likely no different from the understanding of previous pre-mass media generations.

I'm going halfway and saying burr-chi from now on, to piss off everyone.

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[maestro]

Let's just call it Bethesda Fountain Park.