I only say "San Francisco". I say "San Fran". I say "Frisco". I say "The City". I say "SF". I say "San Fran" and "Frisco". I say "San Fran" and "The City". I say "San Fran" and "SF". I say "Frisco" and "The City".
They said only out-of-towners used it. Tourists, basically. But that has not been verified. One person we do know hated the word: Herb Caen, the revered columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. When he wrote about the city, people listened. There was kind of a lingua franca about them. Caen came along after the city had grown from a dinky West Coast outpost into a Gold Rush boomtown with saloons and debauchery, and later into a city that looked more like the East Coast and European cities it wanted to imitate.
Francis of Assisi. And because Frisco shows disrespect for a city that is now big and proper and respectable. People wanted to seem proper, and cultured, so they listened to Caen and shunned it.
It was just something that was instilled in me as a kid. Just kind of the root and background of that name and took it far, with T-shirts and tattoos and blew up that name. After all, Caen was born in Sacramento. Working on this story one day, I grabbed a Lyft and got to talking with the driver, a guy named Lorenzo Beasley.
Stanford linguist Teresa Pratt echoes that. Nicknames are even more like that. Knowing which one to use and which one not to use tells people where you belong. Which brings us back to Rena, our question-asker, who suddenly felt out of place because she was called out for using Frisco.
Well, we have some good news for Rena. The famous Herb Caen eventually flip-flopped on Frisco a couple of times in the s. Put 'em in the comments! Get twice-per-week updates from TravelSkills via email! Sign up here. Chris McGinnis is the founder of TravelSkills.
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