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westlock

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English

Syllables
west-lock
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town in Westlock County, Alberta, Canada; formerly named Edson and Edison.

Etymology

Blend of Westgate + Lockhart, surnames of the owners who owned the land where the settlement was built since 1912. The original unincorporated community east of the present town, established 1902, is named Edson, after the Edgson family, who owned the settlement's land, but is renamed Edison by Irish immigrants after Thomas Edison, because it duplicated with another settlement along the Grand Trunk Railway.

Phrases

Westlock County

Questions

What does westlock mean?
A town in Westlock County, Alberta, Canada; formerly named Edson and Edison.
Where does westlock come from?
Blend of Westgate + Lockhart, surnames of the owners who owned the land where the settlement was built since 1912. The original unincorporated community east of the present town, established 1902, is named Edson, after the Edgson family, who owned the settlement's land, but is renamed Edison by Irish immigrants after Thomas Edison, because it duplicated with another settlement along the Grand Trunk Railway.

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