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Wasn't the original name "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula", so technically LA isn't really LA, it should be EPdNSlRdLAdRP!
Based on the many letters and the short supply of vowels, I'm fairly sure that is a Polish last name
I have never, ever heard someone say SF for San Francisco or SD for San Diego in a conversation. I have heard them as part of other abbreviations...USD for University of San Diego, for instance. But just "I'm heading down to SD this weekend"? Never.
I have never, ever heard someone say SF for San Francisco or SD for San Diego in a conversation. I have heard them as part of other abbreviations...USD for University of San Diego, for instance. But just "I'm heading down to SD this weekend"? Never.
Yeah, OC sounds normal, but i have heard a couple of people say SD, but rarely. SF just sounds weird, and I know no on that says it.
Santa Fe is very often referred to as SF in written form, but not spoken.
ABQ is taking over as Albuquerque's most common nickname, especially to outsiders. Many locals, though, cling to calling it The Duke City or prefer the old Spanish nickname Burque.
SLC for Salt Lake City and PDX for Portland are the most common that I know of which haven't yet been mentioned.
BK for Brooklyn and BX for the Bronx are common ones that also come to my mind.
DTLA is also the only widespread use of the initials DT to be used along with city initials to refer to a downtown area that I know of. I've seen more and more cities use the initials for their downtowns in written form and for marketing, but I haven't seen for other cities the widespread acceptance in everyday parlance as DTLA has achieved for Downtown Los Angeles.
LAX is also the most famous airport code and it was the first to be widely used as much as I can remember, so L.A. seems to have the edge on having the most famous use of initials in the world.
SLC for Salt Lake City and PDX for Portland are the most common that I know of which haven't yet been mentioned.
BK for Brooklyn and BX for the Bronx are common ones that also come to my mind.
DTLA is also the only widespread use of the initials DT to be used along with city initials to refer to a downtown area that I know of. I've seen more and more cities use the initials for their downtowns in written form and for marketing, but I haven't seen for other cities the widespread acceptance in everyday parlance as DTLA has achieved for Downtown Los Angeles.
LAX is also the most famous airport code and it was the first to be widely used as much as I can remember, so L.A. seems to have the edge on having the most famous use of initials in the world.
here's a question: was LAX the first airport in the US named "City-Name International Airport"? I can't think of any other that might be that old, short of SFO. If it was, it might account for why the initials were used.
2. SF - people have been saying "S" "F" for a long time when referring to San Francisco, and they add an "O" when they specifically mean the Airport, "S", "F", "O".
3. SD - as far back as the 1980's people would say "S" "D" when referring to San Diego, they still do.
4. the OC - Orange County, CA
Maybe it’s a regional thing but I have lived in various parts of LA for two decades and have never heard anyone say SF or SD. Everyone says “the OC” except people that live there and they say “OC”.
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