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I'm always reminded by guests to the city (especially Americans) about our "trails". I know that Edmonton has at least one, but I believe that only Calgary has truly adopted the idea of "fill-in-the-blank Trail" to every part of the city.

Also, while not an expression, one trait that truly says Calgary to me, is some bumblefuck driving slower than January molasses in the left f'ng lane of a high speed road. Ah, that home town feeling ...
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I'm always reminded by guests to the city (especially Americans) about our "trails". I know that Edmonton has at least one, but I believe that only Calgary has truly adopted the idea of "fill-in-the-blank Trail" to every part of the city.
My brother in law from Vancouver always comments on our "trails" as well.

"Is there any road that isn't a trail," he says.
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Also, while not an expression, one trait that truly says Calgary to me, is some bumblefuck driving slower than January molasses in the left f'ng lane of a high speed road. Ah, that home town feeling ...
Please, don't go there. I don't want to bring my road rage into this pleasant little oasis we have here.
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I'm always reminded by guests to the city (especially Americans) about our "trails". I know that Edmonton has at least one, but I believe that only Calgary has truly adopted the idea of "fill-in-the-blank Trail" to every part of the city.

Also, while not an expression, one trait that truly says Calgary to me, is some bumblefuck driving slower than January molasses in the left f'ng lane of a high speed road. Ah, that home town feeling ...
Edmonton tends to use 'Drive' instead of 'Trail'. Whitemud Drive, Capilano Drive, Anthony Henday Drive etc.
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Of interest to some, and discussed here previously, it was reported in the Herald today that the Republik is re-opening in the Model Milk/Victoria's building at 17th Avenue and 2nd Street. http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/...81bd06&k=54847
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My mom was born and raised in Calgary (and so was her dad) and she says a couple of things that strike me as being typically Calgarian, like "q-pon" for "coupon" and "westrin" for "western."

"Parkade" and "garburator" are both western Canadian terms that are not commonly used elsewhere on the continent. My girlfriend, who lived in Vancouver for 7 years before coming here, knows what they mean but most people I know who grew up in Montreal or Toronto haven't heard of them before.

EDIT: Turns out my girlfriend says "q-pon," so I guess it's not just a Calgary thing.
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I'm always reminded by guests to the city (especially Americans) about our "trails". I know that Edmonton has at least one, but I believe that only Calgary has truly adopted the idea of "fill-in-the-blank Trail" to every part of the city.

Also, while not an expression, one trait that truly says Calgary to me, is some bumblefuck driving slower than January molasses in the left f'ng lane of a high speed road. Ah, that home town feeling ...
Left lanes in the city proper are NOT passing lanes. If you don't like slow drivers, whatever, but the "left lane" is irrelevant.
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Left lanes in the city proper are NOT passing lanes. If you don't like slow drivers, whatever, but the "left lane" is irrelevant.
Depends if a city has freeways or not.

Calgary's in this interesting state where half the population still thinks of it as a small town, and the other half thinks the Deerfoot is the 401.
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Depends if a city has freeways or not.

Calgary's in this interesting state where half the population still thinks of it as a small town, and the other half thinks the Deerfoot is the 401.
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Left lanes in the city proper are NOT passing lanes. If you don't like slow drivers, whatever, but the "left lane" is irrelevant.
Furry is technically right on this one. However, common decency and social standards should get people to wake the fuck up. Just move your piece of shit vehicle out of the way so I can endanger my life and everyone else on the road by getting to my destination marginally quicker. Seriously, I'm not kidding. Just move right.
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Depends if a city has freeways or not.

Calgary's in this interesting state where half the population still thinks of it as a small town, and the other half thinks the Deerfoot is the 401.
Right, the Deerfoot isn't the 401. It's the 2.
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I am pretty sure that this one hasn't been mentioned thus far: +15

I know that these "skywalks" come in various forms in other cities but to Calgarians they are simply +15s.
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Left lanes in the city proper are NOT passing lanes. If you don't like slow drivers, whatever, but the "left lane" is irrelevant.
As supported by Scott, you are absolutely correct that there is no legal edict stating that on city roads, the left lane is a passing lane only. This, however, is the reason I explicity said "... a high speed road". On roads such as Glenmore, Crowchild, John Laurie, etc common driving skills - as taught by formal trainers and stated in the provincial handbooks - slower traffic should stay right.

Again, on a high speed road (defacto expressways) stay right if you wish to drive below the speed limit (when not warranted by weather).
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Depends if a city has freeways or not.

Calgary's in this interesting state where half the population still thinks of it as a small town, and the other half thinks the Deerfoot is the 401.
Right, the Deerfoot isn't the 401. It's the 2.
I'd take drivers on the 401 over Calgary drivers on Deerfoot any day of the week.
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Speaking of roads, what about 22x? Does anyone call is Marquis of Lorne Trail? I never do. Just 22x.
As someone who is originally British but has grown up in Ottawa where I took French immersion, "Marquis of Lorne" made me do a double take and wince when I first saw it on a road sign in Calgary. It's either "Marquis de Lorne" or "Marquess of Lorne". The latter is the actual title since it's a British (Scottish) title but "Marquis de Lorne" would be the correct name in French, while "Marquis of Lorne" is just plain wrong. I just hope that "Marquis of Lorne" isn't some subtle off-colour reference to the fact that the man himself was probably bisexual.

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That is right, in Calgary we say Law-heed as in Peter Lougheed and on the wet coast they say Low-heed as in Lougheed Highway. Don't know why. I wonder how they say it in England.
In England it would be Lau-heed but the "au" sound is one that is not present much in Canadian English (it's found in Br.En. in words like author, caught, law, etc.). The closest is the sound of the o in words like old, cold, or, more, etc.

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Pronouncing the word ashphalt instead of asphalt seems to be a Calgary thing.
No, that's definitely present in Ottawa and the Ottawa Valley/Eastern Ontario and probably elsewhere in Ontario as well.

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How do people pronounce "coupon"? Myself and my family originally hail from the maritimes and eeeeveryone pronounced it "q-pon". I did too until I came to the conclusion it was weird and trained myself to say it right .
Having not fully lost all British pronunciation, this one I find just plain odd. I don't "yod drop" yet here is a case of extraneous yod-insertion. So, while I pronounce words like student, futile and news as "styudent", "fyutile" and "nyuse" I pronounce coupon as "koo-pon". It's the 'long u's that take a yod people, not the 'oo'/'ou's.


"Parkade" is not a word heard much in Ontario, which is unfortunate because it's a lot better than the other options. Out of curiosity, does it refer to the above ground and below ground varieties, or just the above ground? Once I was in Calgary I used it only for the above ground variety (not having any better phrase in Ontario English) but for underground I continued to use "parking garage". Even after returning to Ontario, I continue to use parkade.

"Trails" for major roads: I understand the history behind the term, but it still sounds peculiar.

Saloons: shocked to discover they actually exist.

"White hatting": definitely a Calgarianism
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Left lanes in the city proper are NOT passing lanes. If you don't like slow drivers, whatever, but the "left lane" is irrelevant.
Please tell me you're not one of those guys who tries to single handedly enforce the speed limit by sitting in the left lane on Deerfoot doing exactly 100 thinking you're some kind of civic hero.

If people would just follow the slower traffic keep right rule, I bet accidents would be cut in half on Deerfoot. Speed doesn't cause accidents, people who pull crap like what's mentioned above cause accidents. One only has to compare the accident rates on Germany's autobahns to ours to see that speed doesn't kill.
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As someone who is originally British but has grown up in Ottawa where I took French immersion, "Marquis of Lorne" made me do a double take and wince when I first saw it on a road sign in Calgary. It's either "Marquis de Lorne" or "Marquess of Lorne". The latter is the actual title since it's a British (Scottish) title but "Marquis de Lorne" would be the correct name in French, while "Marquis of Lorne" is just plain wrong. I just hope that "Marquis of Lorne" isn't some subtle off-colour reference to the fact that the man himself was probably bisexual.
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Biographical Sketch: John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Argyll was born in 1845, the son of John Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower. He was married in 1871 to HRH Princess Louise of Great Britain, daughter of HM Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He was 9th Duke of Argyll and also Marquis of Lorne. He served as Governor-General of Canada from 1878 to 1883. He died in 1914.


I'm sure Queen Victoria would have had her son-in-law's name fixed if it was wrong. He was a GG of Canada after all, so its not like us western hicks got it wrong on the road sign.
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In England it would be Lau-heed but the "au" sound is one that is not present much in Canadian English (it's found in Br.En. in words like author, caught, law, etc.). The closest is the sound of the o in words like old, cold, or, more, etc.
Maybe you have a very different accent than I can picture.. but author, caught, law - the sound is very common in Canadian English. See also straw, paw, saw. Bought, taught, lot, dot, not, rot. Even Americans use this sound in "ma" - at least on Little House on the Prairie! They sound nothing like the o in old, cold, etc. It's the sound of AWWWWW (whiny noise), not OHHHH (sigh).

Other than people who've only seen the word and then tried to pronounce it (a growing phenomenon thanks to the Internet, my personal favourite is people who played Starcraft and now talk about ZEE-LOTS), I've always heard it pronounced LAW-HEED.
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Please tell me you're not one of those guys who tries to single handedly enforce the speed limit by sitting in the left lane on Deerfoot doing exactly 100 thinking you're some kind of civic hero.

If people would just follow the slower traffic keep right rule, I bet accidents would be cut in half on Deerfoot. Speed doesn't cause accidents, people who pull crap like what's mentioned above cause accidents. One only has to compare the accident rates on Germany's autobahns to ours to see that speed doesn't kill.
I love passive-aggressive drivers. They're some of the most dangerous on the roads. I think I've seen all of 3 actual "fast" drivers on the Deerfoot, ever. By fast I mean going 150+. The rest of us just want to run it up to 110-120. If that scares you, stay right as a courtesy and a safety measure. But dear god please stop trying to block traffic thinking you're doing the right thing. You're only going to get someone killed.

What's funny is that the "slow traffic keep right" thing isn't an actual law in any Canadian jurisdiction that I can think of. It's just a suggestion to help keep traffic moving. It's a courtesy. There's nothing illegal with going 100 in the left lane on the Trans-Canada that I know of - or if there is a law against it, it is never enforced. Contrast this to many American states where they've brought in laws where it's an automatic ticket if you're ever passed on the right when you clearly had time to move right to let traffic by. Those laws were brought in to prevent accidents and have no mention whatsoever in them about the actual speed limit.

Folks, do yourself and everyone around you a favour. If you want to drive slower than the surrounding traffic, by all means, please do. Just move right when you can. There's a reason they teach this in driver's ed.
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I've always said Law-heed, but I can see it being pronounced LOW-heed, which is what I think he meant.
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