You all probably called San Francisco "Frisco" instead of "The City" too.

Jan 9, 2023
6:26:40am

Acorn All-American

I lived in the bay Area my first 40 years and NO ONE added "the" except for foreigners from LA. Probably a new thing with all of the Tech transplants with no radio traffic reports for them to understand how they are supposed to speak native.

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Why CA uses “the” in freeway names, and FYI I don’t care if others think it’s

runitup590

1/8/23 10:45pm

I like that I still use “the”

Dr MoBYU

1/8/23 10:54pm

I've noticed that Las Vegas residents also use "the" in front of highways.

Jay Kay

1/8/23 10:55pm

I have asked my Cailfornia in-laws to verbalize directions from CA to UT and

cougarsuperdave

1/8/23 10:58pm

It’s never “the” I-15. It’s either “I-15” or “the 15”.

valcorger

1/8/23 11:05pm

You're right. I'm not that familiar with CA lingo but they definitely said "the"

cougarsuperdave

1/8/23 11:14pm

Its a SoCal thing. I don't hear anybody do that in NorCal

cheezedawg

1/8/23 11:03pm

Hmmm... We used to... The 880. The 680. The 280... The 101. The 17...

bluelands

1/9/23 5:59am

Really, never heard the "nasty Nimitz"? That was more common than "the" 880.

Acorn

1/9/23 6:30am

That is true. I guess I didn't use it though

bluelands

1/9/23 6:35am

I never used it, but we never used "the" either.

Acorn

1/9/23 10:28am

I feel like they don’t use either now.

JuicyJam

1/9/23 6:34am

I lived on the Peninsula for 10 years and the "the" was extremely common.

BerkeleyCoug

1/9/23 6:20am

You all probably called San Francisco "Frisco" instead of "The City" too.

Acorn

1/9/23 6:26am

I either use the name “I-25” or just say the number “25” here in Colorado.

303coug

1/8/23 11:05pm

I think just the number is Colorado’s ‘the’. I can’t think of anyone using I-.

ponys

1/8/23 11:09pm

Back east a lot of people use “the”. In Canada it was always the “401” or “404”

Sandstone Cougar

1/8/23 11:10pm

RE: Why CA uses “the” in freeway names, and FYI I don’t care if others think it’s

Division Bell

1/8/23 11:19pm

Genius series

cheezedawg

1/8/23 11:56pm

It's dumb and weird. You shall be mocked

OldFogey

1/9/23 12:08am

Could be worse, they could call everything the expressway like they do in MI

303coug

1/9/23 7:28am

Hey, I'll mock anyone. It's what you do when you got old. 🙂

OldFogey

1/9/23 8:51am

Well there’s like 30 freeways here vs Utah having like 4 so you need to

SwanSong

1/9/23 12:19am

CA in UT, take the State past the DI then jump on the Bulldog straight to the Y

BlueRhino

1/9/23 6:35am

Nope, “take State Street past the D.I., then Bulldog straight to the Y.” Fixed it for you.

valcorger

1/9/23 8:00am

Your example is worthy of emulation.

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