Comments on: Talking Like a Native

By: Golden Swenson

Golden Swenson — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:31:12 +0000

Funny, I had never read or heard anything about a SF accent, but I do find myself falling into aspects of it. The whole running of words together is definitely something I do. I even use words like “kinda” & “gonna” in emails.

One thing that wasn’t mentioned was the word “hella”. It’s more of a Nor-Cal thing as a whole, but that particular word has gotten me pinpointed to my origin more than anything else. That… and Giants hat.

Thanks, from a 3rd generation native.

Rob

By: Dan Trimble

Dan Trimble — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:46:52 +0000

I have a cutout of the original article from the Chronicle in a scrapbook. Unfortunately, the scrapbook is in a crate in a storage warehouse. I do have to move all my stuff out very soon though (the storage company is going bankrupt), so I’ll get it for you then.

Incidentally, do you know what the first year was that our family (on either mom or dad’s side) arrived in San Francisco, and from where they came?

By: Scott Trimble

Scott Trimble — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:03:42 +0000

As far as I know, the earliest arrivals to San Francisco (although certainly not to California which goes back to the 1850s on the Simmons side) were in the 1870s.

Katharina Schick arrived from Germany in 1872. The Suggs came from Mississippi and North Carolina around 1874, and the Heim family came from Alsace, France, around 1875.

In the 1890s, the Castelhun family arrived from Missouri, and Robert Sinclair Trimble came from Northern Ireland via New York in the 1880s. The last to arrive in San Francisco was the Donham family around 1905, give or take a couple years.

By: Courtney LaBree

Courtney LaBree — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:23:50 +0000

that made me laugh but i’m from “across the bay”

also, the river to me is the american not the russian, AND i call alcatraz the rock with pride. greatest tourist attraction on the planet in my humble opinion.

By: STST Blogs » Blog Archive » Talking Like a Native 2

STST Blogs » Blog Archive » Talking Like a Native 2 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:24:48 +0000

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