# Tijuana is not pronounced 'Tia-Wanna' **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 19, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tijuana-is-not-pronounced-tia-wanna/585997 "2011-06-19T00:54:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**Author:** ![Jake\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Jake\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tijuana-is-not-pronounced-tia-wanna/585997/28 "2011-06-19T03:31:26Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > I can’t speak for **Johnny** –and I can’t really provide any “proof” of it, except from personal experience–but there is a history of people who pronounce it that way with a distinct leer in their voice and demeanor, when they want to associate the city with drugs, prostitution, and a place to go where you can get batshit drunk, piss on the sidewalk, and be a general asshole with impunity. These are typically students from State (you know, the “party” school), who would never do these things in public back East. In the minds of these people, they don’t see it for what it really is: a huge city with a vast population trying to get along like any other city. Considering the content matter of _Locked up Abroad_, it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s why the narrator on the show pronounced it that way–I don’t know. Holy fucking shit, Private Guizot! Did you just simultaneously hijack and shit on this thread? I think you did. Your baggage does not mean shit to me or anyone else, so I strongly suggest you un-fuck yourself before someone else does it for you. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tijuana-is-not-pronounced-tia-wanna/585997)._