Every time I hear a Canadian pronounce the name of this city, I hear "Mun-treal." Maybe it's just my broad-voweled Boston accent, but my pronunciation is a bit more drawn out and sounds more like "Mawn-treal," which would rhyme with "John-treal."
Overheard in the McGill Student Ghetto:
Girl: "I really liked Ernie and Bert as a kid."
Guy: "What was with them? Two grown men sharing a bed!"
Girl: "They didn't share a bed! They had their own beds! I remember because there was a bit where Bert tells Ernie not to eat cookies in bed, so he eats them in Bert's bed instead."
Guy: "Oh."
Girl: "I always got so upset for Bert. The poor guy; he just wants to get some sleep!"
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Not surprising! Canadians have some distinct vowel pronunciations that I learned about in great detail when I took linguistics and that particular "uh" sound is one of them.
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