Tuesday, June 06, 2006

OT: E-Town

One minor point of my earlier "To Edmonton fans" thread was that I knew it was called E-Town. Some Edmonton locals disputed that and I crossed it out.

I have stumbled over at least one Edmonton poster on a message board that list their location as E-Town, so I decided to take a more indepth look.

Urban Dictionary: E+Town and E-Town

E town is slang for the city of Edmonton (the city of champions). Edmonton is the capitol of Alberta Canada

Other slang for Edmonton is the EAC, The 780, the seven eighty, the city of champion, the city of champs
Other "E-Town" links:
Etownsalsa
Get Down E-Town
VueWeekly
Lil Traveler Virtual Tourist
E-Town pics
E-Town Slammer
Concerts in E-Town
Cup Crazy in E-Town

I can go on. Google it - my blog was actually #6. Anyway, the point is I wasn't completely off-base with that. I even learned a few things on the way.

3 comments:

The Acid Queen said...

On the old jimrome.com boards we used to call it "Edmonchuk" because there are a lot of Ukrainians living there.

Mmmmm....garlic sausage and pierogi.

Chris said...

I can buy that. Game 2 should be interesting. Despite coming back on San Jose, I'm sure Edmonton doesn't want to try and come out of a 2-0 hole again.

Chris said...

EAC - I just re-read the entry and I immediately thought of Finding Nemo and the East Australian Current. Weird.