Princeton's WordNet (3.00 / 2 votes) Rate this definition: safety (noun). the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions. insure the safety of the children; the reciprocal of safety is risk.
Conversely, the Spanish were also pronouncing it the same way, but with a different etymological origin! The Spanish understood the word âcoronelâ as the officer of the âcrownâ rather than that of the âcolumnâ. It is possible that both the French and the Spanish pronunciation affected the English one. The English had already begun to use the word âcoronelâ, which became bastardized by their accent to be pronounced as âkernelâ, with an open ambiguous ârâ in the middle overshadowing the âoâ.
We should continue to pronounce Montreal the way we always have. But every once in a while, try it with a French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese accent. Perhaps my parentsâ mangled Italo-franco version was the closest to the correct pronunciation.n a 1992 article (PDF) in the Revue dâhistoire de lâAmerique amÃ©rique, Francaise FranÃ§aise jean poirier Of the commission de Toponymie du quebec quÃ©bec dismissed suggestions the name has anything to Do with The archbishop Of monreale of Sicily or With, claude de pontbriand fils Du (Seigneur) . de montreal montrÃ©al france