[martyup]

I forgot that "Frisco" is a derogatory term to some.

Herb Caen, the Pulitzer Prize–winning San Francisco Chronicle columnist,
was adamant that no one call his fair city by such a sliced-up moniker.
Instead, “Caress each Spanish syllable, salute our Italian saint.
Don’t say Frisco and don’t say San-Fran-Cis-Co,” he advised.
“That’s the way Easterners, like Larry King, pronounce it. It’s more
like SanfranSISco.” Yet cultural forces ranging from Otis Redding (“headed
for the Frisco Bay”) to Pink Floyd (the unofficial Darkness Over Frisco
live album) to Google (search “Frisco,” and see what comes up at the
top of the page) keep the name associated with San Francisco.
Here’s the thing with “Frisco”: nicknames are supposed to embody
some overall characteristic, not just act as a lazy surgery of the
city’s name. There’s a reason we don’t call New York “Nork” when
we’re feeling saucy. It’s the “City That Never Sleeps” for poetic
reasons. Just because “Frisco” sounds like a place (and it is
in Texas and Colorado), doesn’t make it a good nickname. No one
would get on the I-5 and head south for “Agles.”
(Pro tip: if an out-of-town friend calls it Frisco, avoid the soapbox.
San Franciscans have a rep for being uptight jerks about the nickname.
Don’t play into the stereotype. They’ll eventually notice you never
call it that anyway.)

https://thebolditalic.com/don-t-call-it-...c14348d49c

[martyup]

I forgot that "Frisco" is a derogatory term to some.

Herb Caen, the Pulitzer Prize–winning San Francisco Chronicle columnist,
was adamant that no one call his fair city by such a sliced-up moniker.
Instead, “Caress each Spanish syllable, salute our Italian saint.
Don’t say Frisco and don’t say San-Fran-Cis-Co,” he advised.
“That’s the way Easterners, like Larry King, pronounce it. It’s more
like SanfranSISco.” Yet cultural forces ranging from Otis Redding (“headed
for the Frisco Bay”) to Pink Floyd (the unofficial Darkness Over Frisco
live album) to Google (search “Frisco,” and see what comes up at the
top of the page) keep the name associated with San Francisco.
Here’s the thing with “Frisco”: nicknames are supposed to embody
some overall characteristic, not just act as a lazy surgery of the
city’s name. There’s a reason we don’t call New York “Nork” when
we’re feeling saucy. It’s the “City That Never Sleeps” for poetic
reasons. Just because “Frisco” sounds like a place (and it is
in Texas and Colorado), doesn’t make it a good nickname. No one
would get on the I-5 and head south for “Agles.”
(Pro tip: if an out-of-town friend calls it Frisco, avoid the soapbox.
San Franciscans have a rep for being uptight jerks about the nickname.
Don’t play into the stereotype. They’ll eventually notice you never
call it that anyway.)

https://thebolditalic.com/don-t-call-it-...c14348d49c