Doobieous, the Portiuncula chapel in the Basilica of Our Lady of Angels in Assisi, Italy is the cradle of the Franciscan Order. The Portola expedition camped on the LA River (which they called the Porciuncula) on August 2, 1769. The day before was the Feast Day of
Nuestra Senora do los Angeles de Porciuncula.
PA - Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
(Yeah, I know, it was on the tips of all your tongues…)
San Francisco is referred to as the Bay Area. I’m originally from Tampa and everyone there calls it the Bay Area too. I have a friend from Green Bay who refers to that area as “the Bay Area.”
(nothing to do with the OP, but please forgive me)
Satan lives in New York? I should have suspected as much – the place has always been a hello hole… 
And I’d be more than happy to trade places with any disaffected Angelinos. Heaven on Earth, Southern California is.
“The dawn of a new era is felt and not measured.” Walter Lord
My hometown of Grand Junction, CO is GJ to some.
Wrong thinking is punished, right thinking is just as swiftly rewarded. You’ll find it an effective combination.
While you don’t hear it as much now as you would have 40 or 50 years ago, Dallas is sometimes referred to as Big D. Even had a song in Broadway musical (Most Happy Fella) written about it.
::singing::
You’re from Big D, my oh yes!
Big-D, little-a, double-l, a-s!
I’ll forgive you provided the next time you post “San Francisco is referred to as the Bay Area” you provide a warning so I don’t inhale my lunch down the wrong tube!
The San Francisco AREA is called the Bay Area, thus the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) serves more than just San Francisco.
San Francisco itself is variously referred to as:
(1) The City,
(2) SF,
(3) San Fran (not recommended nomenclature to use around the locals)
(4) Frisco (not recommended nomenclature to use around the locals)
U.C. San Diego is pretty much always called “UCSD.” Probably because there is also a San Diego State University and a University of San Diego.
Tijuana is frequently called TJ around here, too.
I actually believe UP is more standard than a lot of the other spoken abbreviations that have been thrown out. At least it is used in a wider area. Wisconsinites also call it the UP. I doubt Canadiens do but maybe???
Anyway it should be a part of Wisconsin and if there was realistically a financial advantage to having it we would take it. As it is the UP is a nice place to visit and better when it is on the neighboring state’s tax rolls.
Also wouldn’t people from the Lower Penninsula (LP???) be correctly identified as Fudgies or Trolls. All in the interest of being able to correctly identify you Michiganders that is??
Never claimed “The U.P.” wasn’t a standard term for that area up above me; it’s just not a city.
Everybody in the Lower Peninsula is a troll. (We live below the bridge. HA! Get it?)
Locals where I live in the northern Lower, however, aren’t fudgies. People who come up from southern Michigan to where I live, or further north into the U.P., are fudgies.
The purchase of fudge is not a requirement for this term; driving 15 miles below the speed limit to gawk at Lake Michigan like you’ve never seen it before may be.
Give me immortality, or give me death!
quote:
“We have two women in our office from Kansas City and they alway refer to it as such. I have never heard any one say KC.”
I’ve never heard anyone from Kansas City call it KC (kay-see) either. It seems to be a pronunciation used by other midwesterners to refer to the city.
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Originally posted by Cartooniverse:
Yeah, well I grew up in Philly, and when you went into the Center City area, it was referred to as The City. I don’t think it is pretention, I think it is convention :)/QUOTE]
I went to college in Philly. As a New Yorker, I, along with all of the other New Yorkers, referred to The City as The City (i.e. New York).
The Philadelphians, however, had this strange idea that when they said The City, they were referring to Philadelphia. Their incorrect nomenclature caused no end of confusion.