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SF or The City please -- never call it "San Fran"
by mattbillenstein 10y ago
SF or The City please -- never call it "San Fran"
- tradersam 10y agoThe City is way too generic of a name. Bay Area people would only recognize this as SF--here in O.C., "The City" means Los Angeles. In NY, "The City" means NYC, so on and so on.
- stan_rogers 10y ago...and most of the world would assume the City of London (the Square Mile, as opposed to Metropolitan London).
- neom 10y ago"The City" mean NYC everywhere buster, and don't you be forgetting it.
- ryguytilidie 10y ago"The City" makes sense when you are near a large city. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and you would hear "the city" a lot. When I moved to Oakland, you heard SF described as "the city" a lot. When I go visit friends in Brooklyn and they say lets go into "the city", its a generic name, but we all know what they mean.
- tradersam 10y agoExactly my point.
- tutufan 10y agoIn NY, "NY" means "NYC"...
- davesque 10y agoSan Fran
- hermitdev 10y agoSan Fran...the runner up to Chicago about how to not run a city (end of politics). Complaining about San Fran as a nickname is...odd or idiotic/strange (why the objection?). It's unique, everyone knows what you're referring to, it's not derogatory - merely a truncation, why the objection? Chicago's nick as the 2nd City is a reference to the rebuilding after the great Chicago Fire of 1871 (and the source of the MLS team of the same name - and a source of pride). Now, our nicknames for Columbus, OH are intended to be derogatory (Detroit south). But, I don't get the objection to San Fran...
- untog 10y ago"Frisco" it is, then
- dragonwriter 10y agoNo, Frisco is in Texas.
- sverige 10y agoNo, Frisco is in Colorado.
- dragonwriter 10y agoThat, too. Where Frisco is not, however, is anywhere on the California coast.
- tradersam 10y agoFrisco is in Texas, but nothing is in Frisco.
- nunez 10y agoThat is quickly changing given how Plano is blowing the fuck up
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- beatpanda 10y agoI prefer "The Big Fran" myself
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoTo immediate parent's credit, the CNBC article does not abbreviate SF as San Fran in its title.
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- thrill 10y agoSad Fran's Disco.
- webosdude 10y agolol
- moonka 10y agoI was debating San Fran vs SF in order to fit the title limit, but was worried that not everyone would know what SF is. Based on the number of replies, I shouldn't have worried. Now I know for next time!
- tejon 10y agoI would have just dropped "tech".
- seiferteric 10y agoOddly enough my pet peeve is people calling it "The City". Something so grating an arrogant about it, like other cities in the area don't exist, so of course you must be talking about SF. Also, I am pretty sure people from NY would probably laugh hearing people referring to SF as "The City"
- grzm 10y agoI think this is common in and around any major city. I've lived in or near five major cities in the US and the only one that didn't have some use of "the city" was in Minnesota, where "the cities" is used instead to refer to Minneapolis/St. Paul.
- seiferteric 10y agoYes I know, although growing up in the bay area, I don't really remember people calling SF "The City" until relatively (maybe last 10-15 years) recently, but maybe I just missed it when I was younger.
- dottrap 10y agoEven more odd is that San Jose is a larger city than San Francisco.
- nebabyte 10y agoDrop the "The". Just "City". It's cleaner
- tarr11 10y agoThis is all Herb Caen's fault! [1] I vote for bringing back Frisco. It's a lot easier to say and write. [1] https://thebolditalic.com/amp/p/5c14348d49c https://thebolditalic.com/amp/p/5c14348d49c