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Old 11-13-2017, 11:10 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by CroFlames View Post
True, but this isn't the same thing.

The British came and settled the land. Calgary doesn't mean town on the 2 rivers or whatever. It's some tiny hamlet in Scotland that Macleod happened to be vacationing in before coming out west.

It's not the same name in two languages.
'Germany' is not a literal translation of 'Deutschland' either, but they have the same meaning now because they refer to the same thing.
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