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Unread 05-06-2008, 04:47 PM
Status: "Credo Quia Absurdum" (set 13 hours ago)
 
Location: Mountain Ranch, CA The heart of Calaveras County
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Frisco is in Texas.
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Unread 05-06-2008, 06:02 PM
rah
 
Location: San Francisco
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As a life-long SF resident, I'll tell you "frisco" is fine, especially among younger people, the hip-hop crowd, and poorer people. In my experience it's older people and transplants who are adamant about this "don't call it frisco" thing. Most people don't really care, and a lot of people do use it. It really doesn't matter. The only name I don't like personally is San Fran.

A list of nicknames I know:

the city
frisco
san fran
the sco
sucker free city/ the sucker free
the SFC (stands for sucker free city)
baghdad by the bay
fog city/fog town
the 415
SF

The one's I've heard locals actually use seriously:

the city (by far and away the most universally and frequently used nickname)
frisco
the sco
SF
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Unread 05-06-2008, 07:55 PM
rah
 
Location: San Francisco
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Oops, forgot one of the better nicknames: San Franpsycho
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Unread 05-06-2008, 08:34 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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The only name I don't like personally is San Fran.
What's wrong with san fran? I like it way more than frisco or the city. The City may mean New York if you are in the New York metro, Chicago in Chigacoland, San Fran in Bay Area and so on ...

San Fran is more endearing if you know what I mean! Each one to his own!
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Unread 05-06-2008, 09:12 PM
 
Location: Bay Area, CA
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I don't get it either, people in SF can be so provincial sometimes. The vast majority will tell you never to call it "Frisco" or "San Fran" but no one will actually ever no why or have any reason for it. It's just a "no no" and that couldn't be a more stupid reason, and it's not even a reason really. As long as you aren't trying to disrespect the city then call it whatever you want, people can just be really full of themselves with their anti "Frisco/San Fran" BS.
How is that being full of ourselves? I gave an honest answer - I don't know why that's a "no-no" but it historically is. Doesn't mean I personally care, and you're welcome to call it whatever you want... I just know that when I moved here (at age 7), people told me that only tourists call it Frisco. Okay, whatever! Sounds kind of lame to me anyway, and I simply call it "the city" - and "SF" when I'm typing.

Oh, but one thing that WILL seriously annoy me? Spelling it San Fransisco.

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Unread 05-06-2008, 09:21 PM
 
Location: Bay Area, CA
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The librarian decided to do some research... Don’t Call It Frisco

According to the article, it started because of a Herb Caen book entitled "Don't Call it Frisco" in 1953, where he said the following...
“Not Frisco but San Francisco,” Caen prescribed. “Caress each Spanish syllable, salute our Italian Saint. 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.”

Funny, they actually refer to him as an elitist in the article - so you got that part right, LOL.

And for those who want it to make a comeback: Frisco, that once-verboten term for the city by the bay, is making a comeback among the young and hip. Herb Caen is spinning at warp speed. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/14/DD67721.DTL - broken link)
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Unread 05-06-2008, 09:22 PM
rah
 
Location: San Francisco
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Originally Posted by jeevcy
What's wrong with san fran? I like it way more than frisco or the city. The City may mean New York if you are in the New York metro, Chicago in Chigacoland, San Fran in Bay Area and so on ...

San Fran is more endearing if you know what I mean! Each one to his own!
I just find San Fran...annoying, I can't really say what it is. Endearing?? hehehe
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Unread 05-06-2008, 09:32 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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Originally Posted by gizmo980 View Post
The librarian decided to do some research... Don’t Call It Frisco

And for those who want it to make a comeback: Frisco, that once-verboten term for the city by the bay, is making a comeback among the young and hip. Herb Caen is spinning at warp speed. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/14/DD67721.DTL - broken link)

thanks to the librarian who did this research.
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Unread 05-06-2008, 09:35 PM
 
Location: Long Beach, CA
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Default Baghdad by the Sea

I've never heard of anyone objecting to that name. I love the City By The Bay.
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Unread 05-06-2008, 09:38 PM
 
Location: San Jose, CA
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I just find San Fran...annoying, I can't really say what it is. Endearing?? hehehe
You know what else is annoying? I live in South City, and as you may realize, the name of our town is obnoxiously long. So a lot of service providers will shorten it to SO SAN FRAN when they mail things out here. Aagh!!
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