From Wikipedia:
'Toronto' means 'place where trees stand in the water'. It is an Iroquois name referring to what is now Lake Simcoe (known as Lake Toronto at the time) to the north, where Huron Indians planted tree saplings to corral fish. The portage between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron that went this route was called the 'Toronto Portage', or 'Passage'.
Toronto has collected a number of nicknames and epithets over the past two hundred years, including Muddy York (18th-19th Century), Hogtown (Victorian), The Big Smoke (1920s), Toronto the Good (1950s), T.O. (for Toronto, Ontario) and more recently T-dot, reflecting an ebonics style of nomenclature. Some Canadians outside Toronto have referred in a derogatory manner to the city as considering itself The Centre of the Universe based on the supposed Toronto-centricity of the "national" media.
Residents often pronounce the name in a slurred manner, including Toronno, Tronno, Tronna, Taranna.
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