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Loading ...GOOG-411 offers quick route to nearest Canadian clichés
Google has launched a Canadian version of its voice-recognition local search phone service, whereby users dial a hotline — 1-800-GOOG-411 — and respond to the questions posed by the voice-recognizing computer on the other end. This is a way to find a pizza place, for example.
According to Google engineers, the service has been tweaked to offer “Canadian English.”
“We incorporated some Canadianisms such as ‘eh,’ ‘Traw-na,’ ‘Cal-gry,’ and, of course, ‘aboot,’” a blog post said.
Well, it’s aboot time! We here in Traw-na wouldn’t know how to get to local businesses without the help of Google, eh? Perhaps Google will promote the service online and on TV with videos featuring animated beavers! Whoops, scratch that. Bell owns those cliches. Maybe something to do with maple syrup? (After all, Google is one of the stickiest sites out there.) Oh well. If it’s pandering and banal, we’re sure a search engine like Google will be able to find it.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
“Aboot”? I have lived in Canada all my life (48 years) and the only people I ever heard use the word “aboot” are Americans, and they do not know anything about Canada. Stick goog 411 where the sun don’t shine. I will use Canadian ways to find all things Canadian. Canada Rocks!
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
You’re making fun of this, but if they didn’t do it, their service wouldn’t work. It’s not Google’s fault that people here in Canada choose to talk like morons.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:20 pm
what a farce - isn’t there more important things to focus on?
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Some interesting and fun results when you ask for “off colour” categories and services.
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Special thanks to Newfoundland, at a mere fraction of the total Canadian population, for convincing the world that ALL of Canada speaks Newfie.
Glenn from Trawna
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I’m a 55 year old Canadian and have never heard a Canadian say “aboot” yet!
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
“Aboot” is an American approximation of a real Canadian accent.
Oh, wait. I mean, yay Canada.
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Ok I think this is a waste of time.. No Canadians talk like morons.. And Aboot?! give me a break I have never heard a Canadian use that word.. Only Americans talk like that.
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Can’t say I’ve ever heard the “aboot”.
and.. it’s more of a toronna that I hear. Maybe the tweak needs a tweak, but what do you expect from a nation that changes the spelling of colour becuase the real spelling is too difficult.
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
As amusing as all of this American bashing is, it is just ignorant to suggest that there is no Canadian accent. I assure you it is just as prominent as a southern, newfie, or british accent. Canadians just fully pronounce the “ou” sound in words like about or house- the influence of french speakers perhaps?
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I never realized where the ‘aboot’ thing came from until i was in Tennessee and someone called my being Canadian after one sentence. We do actually say an ‘oo’ sound when we say the word - it goes ah-bou-oo-t where americans just say ‘abaht’ or somehing like that - there is no oo at all. No need to get offended people, they just cant say it like we do so they say the closest thing they can pronounce.
dont take life too seriously - you might not get out alive!
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
1) check out the wikipedian article on Canadian Raising. i’m proud of aboot, even if its an exaggeration of how my pronunciation differs from standard american english.
2) Canadian raising is not a prominent character of Newfoundland english.
3) Newfoundlanders travelling abroad aren’t likely to be assumed to be Canadian, since their molasses-thick dialect is unlikely to be confused with any form of english (Canadian or otherwise), and only slightly less likely to be heard as french!
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I find it absolutely fascinating that over 70% of our population lives within 150 miles of the American border and yet we are all proud to be all we are as Canadians……. think about that.
“Nationalism is the measles of the human race” - Albert Einstein.
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Steve Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:20 pm
what a farce - isn’t there more important things to focus on?
………..
There certainly is friend. I find it intriguing, though, that you would read this article and take time to post a comment on it.
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Like the rest of you, I’ve yet to hear someone outside the maritimes actually say, ‘aboot’. But … ABOUT 8 years ago, while in a mall in Kansas, I did say to my gf, “we should get goin’, eh?” … and the woman next to me let her jaw hit the floor before turning to her friend and saying, “he said eh.” … That’s right up there among the funniest things I’ve ever experienced in my life!
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I’m Canadian and This hurts Google.
eh - is a dummies termination, sort of like silly valley girl talk by under-educated folk”
funny thing: Canadian average education levels are higher than US and Google/Microsoft hire staff constantly from Waterloo University.
Traw-na - again dummies talk that way but most will use tur-ON-toe or tur-ON-oh.
Cal-gry - this is the same as above but aboot?
I’ve worked on a nation-wide bank help desk for years and never heard this from anyone except Scottish folk.
What I’d like to know is this: People from MA and NY say “cah” (that’s those 4-wheeled things that Canada provides 25% of your gas for..) Now that’s just plain.. well, you know.. under educated.
I’m still your neighbour, so we’ll have to get along.. like it or lump it -bye4new!(Scottish)
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I have lived in Canada all my life (40+) years and I have heard “aboot” often. Just listin to CBC radio. Especially the program “Out Front”. It’s “oot front” this, and “oot front” that all the way through. It’s actually not that some Canadians pronounce it “aboot”, like a thick Scottish brogue or something, it’s just a softened “ow” sound. It’s exquistely annoying. Almost as annoying as those Canadians who punctuate every sentence with “right?” That’s just a fancy- pants way to say “eh”, “right?”
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Canadianisms such as ‘eh,’ ‘Traw-na,’ and, ‘Cal-gry,’ are mainstays of my lexicon.
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Let’s hope Google solves the general problem - voice recognition software that can’t cope with “foreign” accents. I have a British accent (not broad Scouse, or Scots, or Yorkshire, or Cockney, just average) and I can’t make Rogers Wireless’ system understand me - it won’t pass me to a human quickly, either.
I’d think a decent system could listen to a few words of user’s speech, figure out what language and accent they were using, then load appropriate tables. Or actually learn on the fly, as a human does.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Oh Good Grief! I was born and raised here in Western Canada and NEVER has anyone EVER used the word “aboot”! Definitely an Americanism. And the only people I have heard use “eh” were from Quebec, not the Western part of the country. Canadian English? I don’t think so.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:21 pm
lmao never heard that word neither lived in canada my while life, just asked my whole family and my 95 yr old grand father to lol :S
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:32 pm
I dont know why this is #1 on google sci-tech news. I’ve been using this service for months now! This is OLD!!. Get with it people.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
as for the clichés. It’s great. Good old google keeping everything fun but deep down there evil! muahahaha
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:03 pm
I lived in New York for almost 10 years and even listening to my family, I got a kick oot of Canadian’s accent. The funny thing is that just about everywhere I went in the US had accents but everyone thought they sounded like Letterman or Leno. (Accents from anytown USA)
Nothing to get hyper aboot.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Hey! How ’bout them gas prices!
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Aboot is what aCanadian puts on afoot when it’s raining, by…
So… can’t y’all lighten up a bit here? Folks at Google made an attempt at humour and maybe it wasn’t too funny. At least nobody went for the C, Eh? N, eh? D, eh?
Well, maybe I did.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:59 pm
It isn’t what we say and how we say it but what our ears discern.
Spend a month in Boston and you will be saying Cuber. Spend two days in Beaumont (Texas) and
u alll will be a natural.
Since I am from Toronto (and actually say Tor ront tow) I would admit to dialect differences.
Seems a waste of effort to me.
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Well at least they got Calgree right. I never pronounce the a.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:42 am
“Lauchlin Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
You’re making fun of this, but if they didn’t do it, their service wouldn’t work. It’s not Google’s fault that people here in Canada choose to talk like morons.”
We talk like morons? Head down south in the US where “y’all” live and see how well the speak. I have never heard the word “y’ant” (you want) until I was down there.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:48 am
Americans thinking we say aboot is older then the internets.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:07 am
People pronounce things differently, and Google has accounted for that, but I’ve never heard anyone say “aboot.”
June 24th, 2008 at 7:14 am
I’m guilty of using “eh?” and perhaps even a little “toronno” but I think they may want to recheck that “aboot”, never heard anyone it. There was a time or two as a kid and mom sometime said, ” keep it up and you’ll get aboot in the ass!” but I dont think thats what they mean.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Dis here comes from uh nation dat gave us words like yo yo, whatz up,busta cap,fitty and sup just to name a few. I wonder if the US version(if there is one) fits to suit their language problem.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:38 am
It’s possible that some small regions of Canada use these colloquialisms, but most Canadians do not talk like this. These are American generalizations and will not be helpful to a Canadian who is performing an online search. Most of us would search according to the real spelling of Toronto, not guess at the phonetic spelling of a stereotypical Canadian accent. Our country has various regional accents. This “Canadian English” is like saying that all Americans speak with Southern accents, just because they’re the most fun to imitate.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Lighten up, if you take life to seriously, you end up being a jerk. If you cannot have a little fun, you end up being american. Canadians have to embrace the lighter side, laugh a little and get things done. People who don’t realize that these Canadianisms are something of a novelty, and should be taken with a grain of salt. The fact that there is a whole generation or two that speak Bob and Doug Mackenzie style, shows Canada’s influence in the US. It was a small Canadian comedy troop which made most americans believe the ‘aboot’ and ‘eh’ statements popular belief here in the US. Unfortunately, we have other words we pronounce differently such as process, where we pronounce the ‘o’ as a long vowel and they pronounce it as a short vowel. The letter ‘z’ is ‘zed’ in Canada and ‘zee’ in the US. We do have a different pronunciation of many words with similiar meaning, but we should be able to laugh at ourselves ‘eh’?
Lighten up have some fun and don’t take too hard, have a good day.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:53 am
This is fantastic. I’m so happy computers will finally be able to understand my inane western drawl.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:00 am
^
ZING!
June 24th, 2008 at 8:16 am
I was watching Tv a few weeks back and I’ll be danged if I didn’t here a Canadian Official (Of what i have no clue) say “Aboot”.
A Yankee
Southern Illinois
June 24th, 2008 at 8:17 am
I was watching Tv a few weeks back and I’ll be danged if I didn’t hear some Canadian Official (No clue what he represented) say “Aboot” in a conversation he was having.
A Yankee
Southern Illinois
June 24th, 2008 at 8:29 am
It’s not really “aboot”, it’s more like “a-boat” that we say. I didn’t think it was true either until I listened for it and now I can’t not hear it.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Nobody thinks Canadians speak like morons. “Aboot” is just the text approximation of what is a more nuanced way of pronouncing “ou”. I think everyone understands that no-one says “aboot” litterally pronounced. It’s more that Canadians say “about” while Americans say “abOWt,” which for text recognition software is likely a necessary distinction.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Well, now that Canada knows that American companies such as Google are a bunch of idiots.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:10 am
It’s not that we say aboot, but most everyone I know on the east coast does say “aboat” instead of ab-ow-t, with a longer vowel sound. They also say “coach”, weather they are talking sports or sofas., when it should be pronounced “cow-ch”. There’s more, but you get the idea.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Traw-na? That sounds like a way an American would say it.
Do we say “AT-wa” too?
And I agree, I still don’t get the whole “aboot” thing. Never heard it.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:19 am
i’m not sure what relevance #4 gee bee’s comment has ??? but some canadians DO pronounce “about” like “aboot”, and say “oot” for “out”, and say ” noooooo snooooow cooooooone” for “no snow cone”, eh?
your ears just dont hear it, eh?
June 24th, 2008 at 9:28 am
All this talk is basically free publicity for the product. Have you tried it ? Its a free 411 service. Last I checked that was dollars to use.
Aboot, etc… its a joke, which should be forgotten as soon as its laughed at.
Thank you google.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Born and raised in rural Ontario, going to Toronto was one of the major trips for everyone in the area. I think I’ve heard all of Google’s additions used once or twice, usually when making fun of how Americans mis-pronounce things.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I’ve lived and visited many cities in Canada. The first time time I ever heard the word “Aboot”, was from a Californian some years ago. He thought that anybody who lives above the state of “War-shington”, spoke in this manner eh.
Talk about unedumacated…
June 24th, 2008 at 9:48 am
HaHa! Having lived in Canada’s 4 largest cities and traveled extensively throughout the US, I’ve only ever heard Canadians use “aboot” and “eh” who were from border cities like Windsor, ON and Sarnia, ON. I suspect that it’s the overflow from the local “Yanks”.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Yes, this is making fun of Canadian, I have never in my life heard 1 person say aboout in Canada, I wonder if the service in the us has uh huh?
June 24th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Best way to sum this up is…. “Stupid Americans.”
June 24th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Wow. This is sickening. Not so much for the google thing. But the idiocy of some of the comments.
I’m from Newfoundland. And while the dialect and accent is different (and can be hard to understand at times), it’s hardly what I’d call indiscernible from English.
@Brock:
Sounds more like you met a Newfoundlander who decided to put one over on you and you were dumb enough to fall for it.
@GeeBee:
Only a dumbass from “Trawna” would even make such a idiotic statement. Oops, did I make a generalization?
As for “aboot” thing. The very first time I ever heard anyone, Newfoundlander or not, say that was in that stupid South Park movie. If the americans can’t tell the difference between reality and a movie (and a bad cartoon no less), then that’s just sad. But, really, it shouldn’t be unexpected. They seem to think everything on film mirrors reality anyway.
Putting a smilie at the end of it doesn’t take away from the malice of the statement kids.
Frankly, the google thing doesn’t bother me that much. It’s americans being americans. And it’s not like we don’t poke fun at them for their idiosyncrasies. Turnabout is fair game.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:55 am
“Lauchlin Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
You’re making fun of this, but if they didn’t do it, their service wouldn’t work. It’s not Google’s fault that people here in Canada choose to talk like morons.”
“OMG! U R SO RITE!” or better yet: “Tru dat, for rizzle.”
Idiot. Aren’t you missing out on a drive by or something?
June 24th, 2008 at 11:11 am
it’s more of an ‘aboat’ sound than aboot. I am british and live in Canada and I hear it all the time - I think it may come from the French or maybe the scottish because they say that too.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Well let me tell you, old son, tha’ any Angishore awaitin’ on the ballicatter amid a Paddy’s Scad, and a-looking aboot fer some oosik’ll be downright happy to fer any help in findin’ ‘im a Beater or a Bedlamer by a usin’ ‘is cell and a dialin’ that there number, dontcha know …
June 24th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Hey look, the Americans made something especially for us! They must know we exist!
How pathetically Canadian of you all to go on and on over what is really a pretty insignificant bit of validation from Google.
Get over it, people. And stop acting so Canadian … it’s embarrassing.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Get real people.
This is how most Canadians speak:
Stompin Tom Connors - Bud The Spud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkaa3I_tCZg
June 24th, 2008 at 11:50 am
I think most of you folks complaining should be saving your breath and chilling out.
Because Google’s right.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Toe-may-toe tu-ma-toe, g-a-r-ag ga-rawg We all say things a little differently from one another and whether we learned it from our parents or grand parents, teachers or TV we will still sound different to foreigners. I think I have heard,
“How’bout” more than any canadianism although “eh” is an annoying close second,but what is more annoying is all the Canadians who speak like urban Americans and use all their slang that is STOOPID.
Anyway our beer is better, our ladies hotter and politicians maybe even stoopider so there you go!!!
June 24th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
It is sad how the Easterners can ruin a nations reputation for proper speech.
I say we create a sovereign West, and those Easterners can keep their messed up, lazy speech patterns.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I’ve also never heard any Canadian saying “aboot”. But there are certainly plenty of Canadians who (proudly) speak like morons.
One word that I always notice when spoken by Americans is “IMPORTANT” which they all pronounce as “IMPORTED”.
My favorite pronunciation is when South Africans pronounce “HERE”… “HEE-yah” but the “yah” has some serious twang to it.
Also, when Australians pronounce “WHY” I swear they manage to cram every vowel into the pronunciation of “WHY”.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
We as Canadians pronounce it ab-ou-oo-t. It’s called Canadian Raising. You can hear it if you say the word multiple times so that it sounds like a bunch of sounds instead of a word. We don’t hear it when we speak because our brain is registering it linguistically instead of aurally. If the accent sounds foreign then people pick up the sounds that don’t register as a word as their ear is used to hearing it. Thus, Americans think we say “aboot”. You can actually feel the extra air coming up your throat for the extra sound if you concentrate on the back of your throat while saying the word.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I’m happy to say I’m Canadian through and through, and I DO use ‘eh’ in my vocab, the same way the American’s use ‘uh huh.’
We all have something.
We also do sound more like ‘aboot’ than ‘abawt’ as how the american’s sound.
We have accents to them, they have accents to use, get over it!
June 24th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Americans have twigged to my accent so often I’m now self-conscious about it. As a multi-province border dweller (Montreal, Windsor, and Vancouver), I can appreciate just how differently we pronounce certain words.
(BTW, it’s actually closer to “a-boat” than “aboot.”)
June 24th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Sounds to me like Southpark has its’ grip on ignorant Americans, budday! I ain’t your budday, guy! I have never said ABOOT in all of my 37 years. Although I did do some drinking with some Newfies a few years back, and I didn’t know what was coming out of their mouths! Trawna sucks.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
My wife from Ontario uses aboot and trawna.
To say, that because you have not encountered it, then “Canadians don’t say that, it’s just those silly Americans” is to act in a truly provincial manner.
Why not spend more time outside of your Saskatoon curling rink, and explore a bit.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
aboot? Ach, laddie, it’s Scottish is it not? Do ye no ken the difference between a Canadian and a Scotsman. Aboot? I have one on each foot but I’ve nay heard a Canadian talkin’ aboot a boot that way.Ach!
June 24th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I’ve still never heard “about” pronounced like “aboot”. For me atleast, I pronounce it [ʌbaʊt] (IPA) or [VbaUt] in X-Sampa, and yet I live in a region that features the Canadian Raising.
Not that it makes a difference, I think a lot of Google’s additions are pretty useless. If it truly recognizes speech patterns and dialectal differences, there should be no reason to go around and affirming that you added the word “aboot”, when the word is “about” no matter how you pronounce it.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Americanism for sure. I’m a Canadian talking to Americans all day on the phone at a call center.
A lot pick up that I’m Canadian because of “about” etc.. but It’s still ABOUT, just pronounced in the awesome canadian fashion. Some southern Americans pronounce it like “abaht”. So is Google going to put that in there too?
The only possible good I see coming from this is an enhancement to voice recognition software like buddy mentioned up the page.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Delightful discussion. I just said “It’s about 9 o’clock.” out loud to myself and sure enough, I said “aboat.” I agree with the writer above who observed that “aboat” is a closer approximation to what we say. This subtle difference is VERY noticeable to the ear of a person accustomed to saying “a-bah-ow-t”.
EVERYONE has an accent, you just never hear your own, which may explain why so many writers have never heard the Canadian pronunciation of “about”.
As for the comment about how things “should” be pronounced — who made those rules??
June 25th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Everyone’s getting upety at Google over this, and I still fail to see the offense. Google has offered us a service for free that is just as good as 411, and will eventually be better (let’s face it . . .Google is TechGod) than anything we’ve currently got.
All these pseudo-colloquialisms that Canadians are accused of having are a minor note compared to how us Canucks view other nations. Take Americans for example. Generally, we still view them as the cowboy, or the idiot from Jerry Springer. Not all Yanks are gun-toting morons, and not all Canadians are northern hicks with hockey sticks.
These additions to the Goog411 system I think were meant as a joke more than an insult, and Google is known for cute, note rude. If this is offensive, it’s not their intention.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:26 am
it’s really just a misguided attempt by google to endear themselves to Canadians.
to me, it shows they don’t have their finger on the pulse here at all. it’s also a little irritating to see.
why not “grits and colored greens” for southerners? “caa” and “faa” (car and far) for Bostonians. Replacing r’s with w’s for content relating to people of chineese decent? make lots of references to potato for the Irish? Potato’e’ would be American, anyone remember Dan Quayle?
June 25th, 2008 at 11:26 am
eh?
June 25th, 2008 at 11:36 am
It’s quite amusing how Mainland Canadians are all upset aboot (sic) google exaggerating the Canadian dialect. Then in the same quote they show their disdain of the Newfoundland dialect! Mainland Canadians are great hypocrites!!!
June 25th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
We actually do say “eh”.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
First, “Traw-na” and “Cal-gry” ?? I’ve never heard a Canadian speak like that. I would wager those “Canadianisms” are for Texans who don’t know how to pronounce words.
Aboot and eh? Well, I guess I’ve been accused of saying aboot, but generally only because I speak so fast. I say about. And eh? Well, its pretty popular with the northern Canadians.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I think google is doing a great JOB far.
The 411 service should be free for the people of Canada to get them the right information while on road.
I think they should instead create or use a software that learns the style or accent of canadians instead of a taking a hard guess and using it as default.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
I’ve never heard anyone say “aboot” in this country, screw google I use Altavista anyway.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
All you folk who say you’ve never heard the word “aboot” clearly don’t know how to listen.
It’s not that Canadians say aboot, or oot, or any such word, but the American ear does not hear us correctly when we pronounce words like about, or out, because the o sound is so short, so all they can hear is the emphasized u sound. To them, this sounds like aboot (or oot). If you listen to the way an American says these words, they’re more like abaout and aout, with a very audible (if frequently mangled) o sound.
June 25th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Funny those Newfs think their dialect/accent is tough; My Scots dialect/accent runs rings around you lot.
Anyway “Aboot” is more Scots than Canadian (or Newf for that matter) - I’ve never hear it said here.
I.E. ” Aye havnae a clue aboot her, likes ken.”
Scotsman livin’ in Cowtown
June 25th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I have lived in the US at various times for a total of about 2.5 years. During those times, most people I met would not believe I was Canadian because I didn’t say “eh”. As I result, I found myself starting to do it, if only out of patriotic duty. Incidentally, the only time I was pegged as a Canadian right off was at a conference in Boston. When I asked the person how they could tell I was Canadian, their response was: “Your diction is too good”.
June 25th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Right.
A lot of us Canadians say about the same way:
Abahoot.
Whereas people in the US generally say
Abehwt.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:34 am
All I can say is “Cal-gry” awesome cuz im from Calgary lived here all my life and I can tell you NO ONE says “Cal-Gary”…
June 27th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
That’s right. Everyone from Calgary says “Cal-gry”.