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Originally Posted by ken0042

But when my parents (in Winnipeg) tell people where I live, they say Calgary and not McKenzie Towne. Or a better example- if I lived in Midnapore (which was its own town at one point) they wouldn't say they are going to Midnapore, they'd say Calgary.

Hint: Midnapore and McKenzie Towne are communities inside Calgary's city limits. The are not separate cities and towns with their own city limits, like Airdire or Okotoks.

There is absolutely no reason on Earth for anyone living outside of Calgary to say they are going to Midnapore instead of saying the are going to Calgary; however, if someone was going to Okotoks and said they were going to Calgary, they'd be wrong, since Okotoks is it's very own entity with it's own government and it's own borders. It IS part of Metropolitan Calgary, but it is NOT part of Calgary.

Metro = Used for pumping up stats.
City = Used for everything else.

It's not my problem if people in Vancouver have confused the two concepts and now refer to Metro Van as just simply Van. Good thing that normal people like me can still tell the difference and can easily dismiss the measly little 600,000 population of the City of Vancouver.

You are just trying to suit your argument of Calgary being the 3rd largest city in Canada by using ''city'' in a literal sense.

Ah yes. How dare someone use the word "apple" when talking about an apple. They should be ashamed of themselves for such a blatant misuse of the English language.

Tip: English = English, City = City, Metropolitan = Metropolitan.
Nobody but yourself is responsible for your interpretation of the English language.