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Vancouverites, help me pronounce "Lougheed" (Thanks!) (lemmy.ca)
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Moved to Vancouver recently, tell me which one or combination of ones is this part of Burnaby?

  • Law-feed
  • Low-weed
  • Loog-heed
  • Luffy (the Straw hat pirate)-d
  • Luffy (Like Fluffy without an F)-d
  • Lao-heed

Thanks for your help!

Sounds like Lowheed is the one that won out.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The name of the 10th premier of Alberta, who won his party control in the '70s on a platform (featuring diversity in spending and preparing for a post-oil economy) all but ignored soon after, after whom the region is named, is apparently pronounced "LAW-heed".

Yeah. I'm dumbfounded too. I'll continue to pronounce it "LOW-heed" so people don't look at me funny. Bone apple tea.