San Frincisco

[CreekDog]

is how you say it if you are actually from here. :D

[TZ]

1. Which just proves you Californians are weirdos.

Can't even pronounce your city names correctly..:hide:

[CreekDog]

8. Ball-Mer

:wtf: :rofl:

[TZ]

14. Do I look like I'm from Balmer, hon?

:rofl:

[CreekDog]

16. well what do Baltimoreans look like?

do they look mad? :rofl:

[KamaAina]

32. They Walk Among Us

they look just like regular people, except that their women tend to have bigger hair. :-)

[Haole Girl]

2. hahahahahaha

Um, no.

[CreekDog]

5. Ummm YES!!!

you want to get labeled an out-of-towner just say San FRANcisco! :rofl: :spank:

that's the way New Yorkers say it. :P

[Haole Girl]

6. I said it San FranCISco when I lived in Northern California 8 years

And nobody ever labeled me an out-of-towner. :P

[CreekDog]

7. you weren't born here

:evilgrin:

[Haole Girl]

12. Yeah, yeah, yeah

And you were?

I guess you were.

Well, I've never heard it pronounced "San Frincisco" but maybe things have changed since I lived there. You probably weren't even born then!

[CreekDog]

15. It's nothing to be proud of!

:rofl:

most of my circle are native born SF'ers or Bay Area'ens and they are completely lazy about pronouncing names.

San Jose is Sanozee' for example.

[dana_b]

26. Sanozay

born there - and you're right... we are really lazy!!

[davidinalameda]

40. I think that's how I say it

[Richardo]

3. "Frincsco"

[CreekDog]

4. probably true

native SF'ers slur their words together.

[Brother Buzz]

9. I grew up in the burbs and it was always called "The City"

[CreekDog]

10. Yes, but on the rare occasions when we refer to the city by name

gotta hurry past the "A" and the "I". ;)

[XemaSab]

11. San FrenCISco

:shrug:

[CreekDog]

13. Spanish native speakers pronounce it that way?

:shrug:

[XemaSab]

17. No se

I'm pretty much from there, and that's how I say it. :shrug:

[CreekDog]

18. oh yeah, you're from Oakland

:hi:

[XemaSab]

19. I am, yes

:D

[dana_b]

20. know what? you're right!

I never realized that I said it like that until you said that.

Yes, I was born and raised here.

[CreekDog]

23. i dunno why we do that

:rofl:

[dana_b]

24. but we don't have accents

nope, no way. Everybody else does though! ;-)

[CreekDog]

36. we don't have accents! and look, Herb Caen wrote on how to pronounce SF (back in '95):

"Don't say Frisco and don't say San-Fran-Cis-Co. That's the way Easterners, like Larry King, pronounce it. It's more like SanfrnSISco, all one word minus a syllable."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/03/03/MN32560.DTL&hw=frisco+caen&sn=017&sc=167

[dana_b]

49. perfect!

and who else should know?

[Iggo]

21. In L.A. we say Sanf(r)nsisco.

The (r) is optional, depending on how fast you're talking.

Or we just say "Frisco."

:hide:

[CreekDog]

22. "Frisco" doesn't bother me

there was a time when it was really frowned on but then sometime during the 90's I think Herb Caen said it was now okay to call it that (because some locals started adopting it).

:hi:

[madinmaryland]

25. San Roidcisco.

:shrug:

[TZ]

27. !

:rofl:

[CreekDog]

28. Laugh all you want

I just figured out who Pete and re-Pete are. :D

[TZ]

29. Nice post..

cboynupton.....:P

[CreekDog]

38. and you're from where?

Goitersbig?

[madinmaryland]

45. She's from Snydersville, just a stones throw from Reagan National Airport.

[CreekDog]

46. i liked my name better

:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. 'Sanfra Cisco'

is how it comes outa my mouth. I've lived within 106 driving miles of it all my life.

[CreekDog]

35. Herb Caen said to say it this way: "SanfrnSISco"

"Don't say Frisco and don't say San-Fran-Cis-Co. That's the way Easterners, like Larry King, pronounce it. It's more like SanfrnSISco, all one word minus a syllable."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/03/03/MN32560.DTL&hw=frisco+caen&sn=017&sc=167

nice find, i must say. :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. Three-Dot Journalism

"Item, item, hoosegotta item?"



:D

[hvn_nbr_2]

31. Actually I think the S.F. natives' preferred pronunciation is "The City".

Or maybe that's just what the rubes out in the burbs call it.

[KamaAina]

33. Not "Frisco"?

:hide:

[CreekDog]

34. Ah, but I'm really ambivalent about "Frisco"

the old "don't call it 'Frisco'" never really took hold with me.

[old mark]

37. I lived in Berkeley for several years and I learned never to call it

"Frisco".
But I never did anyway.
Heard "Sinfrinsisco" a lot, fer sher....

Is that Rico guy still on the TV news?

mark

[CreekDog]

41. Rico Chacon?

wow. i remember him.

in Sankozay, Rico Chacon, Channel 7 news...

boy am i dating myself. ;)

[pink-o]

39. Actually, we just say "The City" cuz there's only one.

I remember reading in Herb Caen a few years ago that some poor guy from Chicago was staying at a hotel near Oakland Airport, and asked the woman at the front desk for a map of the city, and she gave him a map of SF. When he complained he wanted a map of Oakland, she just looked totally confused. "But you asked for a map of 'The City'".

Not too much arrogance there, eh?

[Gormy Cuss]

48. The city was and always will be New York for me. I need to do a geographic adjustment when I hear it

around the East Bay.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

43. I actually had it say it out loud a few times...

and yes, I do pronounce it that way. :D I really hadn't noticed before. Mom does too. There are some oldtimers who say it a bit differently -- mostly those who are second generation from the old country -- kind of with a "samp" sound to it.

"Frisco" is like nails on the chalkboards from me, unless it is being said by a longshoreman oldtimer (preferable from the east coast) who used to work the piers -- the I love it.

[CreekDog]

44. I just now read that Herb Caen said to say it this way: "SanfrnSISco"

which is pretty much what i was trying to describe, except he points out (correctly) that you say it as one word.

same goes for "Sanozay" as one local poster pointed out! :rofl:

:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

47. I thought it was pronounced San Pancho n/t

[Duer 157099]

50. 'nother vote for "The City"

hardly ever call it by it's proper name

[amitten]

51. That's how I say it and I'm from the Midwest.

That's how everyone I grew up around said it, too.

[Adsos Letter]

52. Verily, thou sayest a bookfull!...

but we always just call it The City... :D