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Old 04-28-2010, 03:22 PM
 
Location: Beaverton
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Or maybe the OP doesn't know how it's spelled?
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Old 04-28-2010, 03:46 PM
 
Location: Kansas City
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I have spent time and know a lot of people in California and none of them use the term Cali, actually there was a thread on the term Cali in the California forums.
All my relitives call is Cali where from Kansas/Missouri/Florida. especially my cousins in San Diego who call it that. I think it derives from the pot called Cali weed.
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Old 04-28-2010, 03:56 PM
 
Location: State of Jefferson coast
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All my relitives call is Cali where from Kansas/Missouri/Florida.
Out here we refer to those states as Kanzi, Missi and Flori.
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Old 04-28-2010, 05:17 PM
 
Location: Beaverton
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Out here we refer to those states as Kanzi, Missi and Flori.
LOL!
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Old 04-28-2010, 08:09 PM
 
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Actually I have never heard of a California resident use the term "Cali"
Wow, you never heard that? I grew up in California until age 18 and "Cali" was a typical slang term used in LA area. It surprises me someone from California would not know that term, or maybe its only from certain parts of California.....
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Old 04-28-2010, 08:16 PM
 
Location: Oregon
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Wow, you never heard that? I grew up in California until age 18 and "Cali" was a typical slang term used in LA area. It surprises me someone from California would not know that term, or maybe its only from certain parts of California.....
No, I am not from California, I was just saying that I have never heard a California resident used the term Cali.
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Old 04-28-2010, 08:43 PM
 
Location: SWUS
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I lived in CA for ten years, and I never heard anyone actually call it Cali. Only out-of-staters and perhaps the occasional utterance by a resident teenage girl..

I always correct friends when they use that abbreviation, I find it really stupid (like I found the state itself)

But that's just me.
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Old 04-28-2010, 09:24 PM
 
Location: Beaverton
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I lived in CA for ten years, and I never heard anyone actually call it Cali. Only out-of-staters and perhaps the occasional utterance by a resident teenage girl..

I always correct friends when they use that abbreviation, I find it really stupid (like I found the state itself)

But that's just me.
I'm currently living in the SF bay area (can't wait to leave here btw) and nobody says Cali, and you'd better not say "Frisco" either!
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Old 04-28-2010, 09:43 PM
 
Location: SWUS
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I actually do call it Frisco, but it's more out of spite than anything else :P
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Old 04-28-2010, 10:06 PM
 
Location: Portland, OR / Las Vegas, NV
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