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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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[–] banana@communick.news 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

See Wikipedia:

The name of the highway, unlike that of Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed, is pronounced /ˈloʊhiːd/. The highway is named after Nelson Seymour Lougheed, MLA for the Dewdney District and the BC Minister of Public Works (1928–1929), who ran a logging company in the area.

IPA pronouncer for ˈloʊhiːd