What’s Short For Kichi Zibi Mikan?
Your agent is not sure this is politically correct so, who knows, this might get political blow-back but here is former councillor Gord Hunter’s take on the new name of the Ottawa River Parkway.
Hunter wonders what will be the colloquial shortform for Kitchi Zibi Mikan. You know, like SirJam Parkway except new and improved.
Below the bon mots of the politically correct Hunter is our own Donna Mulvihill moonlighting on Facebook with commonsense words.
To see Mulvihill’s blog (featuring her brand new charming photo) here on The Bulldog, click here.
Ken Gray
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Ken, I come here for your disdain for political correctness, keep up the good work!
Can’t wait for an update to my GARMIN navigation maps so that I can hear the oral instruction murder KZM in English . . and then switch to French to hear another equally garbled pronunciation.
“Kichi Kichi Ya Ya” (?) was a song in the 70s or 80s wasn’t it ? Maybe it’ll make a big comeback in Ottawa and the songwriters will hit the jackpot through royalty payments. But, if memory serves, I don’t think it will count as Canadian content.
Kochi Zibi Wikan. =. Woke
that’s a funny one, Robert k
Well, what’s short for the MacDonald Cartier? We’ll get used to it in no time and will no longer give it a 2nd thought. Ottawa is, after all, a native word, as are so many other place names in…. Canada…