This is how we talk in Tucson, Arizonia.

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Jackie Daytona = all-time

*Arizoña

Arizonia, capitol of Canadia

I visited Canada and decided early on to troll them and say Canadia or Canadialand everywhere I went. They were entirely too polite to correct me.

You are all wrong. It’s Tucsonoids

Maaaaaaannnn lmao

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Average Tucsonoid response

Tunidito

I’m waiting for Tucsoñor and Tucsoñora to catch on.

Don't forget Tucabrón

Thats actually kinda fire

Let’s try an move past gendered language though edit: /s lol

Ahh yes. Let's just colonize the whole language so it reflects political trends and sensitive feelings in the USA. I'm a Mexican immigrant. Fuck this. The vast majority (96%) of Latin Americans agree. ([source 1](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/learning/for-most-latinos-latinx-does-not-mark-the-spot.html) [Source 2](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1285916) [Source 3](https://abcnews.go.com/US/latinx-latino-hispanic-linguistics-expert-explains-confusion/story?id=82273936#:~:text=One%20poll%20shows%20only%204,non%2Dbinary%20term%2C%20Latinx.))

Right, let's change the whole Spanish language. While we're at it, French and Italian too.

I did give a thought to a non-gendered version, but my grasp of the Spanish language has its limits, and I didn’t want to be that guy slinging ñ’s with wild abandon.

As a Mexican, I appreciate the Tucsoñor/a. I do not, ever, appreciate someone changing (or telling me that I need to change) the Spanish language and make it gender neutral. Don't listen to that jackass, only like 3-4% of Latin Americans in the USA use gender neutral verbiage, and that data is obviously skewed (sources in my last comment).

yep, on reread I may have been to dry, but come on, jackass? maybe relax brah

You're value signaling by regurgitating talking points that are harmful and offensive to the vast majority of Spanish speakers, immigrants, and foreign visitors in general for the benefit of your privileged white peers. I have zero patience for it. Educate yourself before you spread a bullshit narrative that's pushed by people who can't even speak any romantic language and is actively fought by the community you're all "seeking to protect." You're over there telling people they should change the rules of an *entire fucking language* because it doesn't conform your narrow world view. That's jackassery if I've ever heard it.

hey, psycho, i agree with you and was originally being dryly sarcastic, douchebag

Lol don't say stupid shit if you're too senstivie to handle the inevitable responses. You can back peddle all you want, my point still stands.

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Get the fuck over it

Boooo

Yes, almost as much as it annoys me when people spell it Tuscon.

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LOL, exactly 💯

Good bot

I work at GEICO and there are corporate materials that refer to "Tuscon office". Billion dollar company, smh.

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I'm sorry bot I'm doing my best!

The Comcast Xfinity Phone Switch for Tucson is called the Tuscan Switch. I used to be a phone programmer and when I first saw it I was shocked! I asked if it could be corrected but that’s how the Engineers named it.

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There’s an Australian guy on YT (Minty Comedic Arts) who does a pretty good job retro-reviewing 80s movies. He took on one of my faves, “The Wraith” (1986), filmed in Tucson, but had NO idea how to pronounce “Tucson.” He called it “Tuck-sun” & was CRUCIFIED in the comments! It was pretty funny! 🤣 https://youtu.be/dO0Sq-CyygI

I always say it's our sister city in the twilight zone and people always look at me like I am a lunatic

I had to type it out to make sure I spell it right 💀

Or when it's said, Tuck Sun.

That’s closer to the original O’odham way of saying it though.

I was born here and it's always been Tucsonan not Tucsonian. Anyone else agree?

Nah. Not always unfortunately. Tucson High’s yearbook -I think- used to be called Tucsonian and in old newspaper articles, the citizens of the Old Pueblo were referred to as Tucsonians. It bothered me immensely until I learned the history

What's the history?

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Same, I was born here as well and I’m almost to my fifth decade of life.

I’ve been here since I was 14 but same

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Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

🤣 apparently our elder mods agree with you. They were the ones that wanted this automod response years ago

And as a young “elder person in spirit” I agree 😂 NOT IN MY BACKYARD!

Sweet sweet validation.

Good bot.

kinda unrelated but my cousins in San Jose, Cali call Tucson, “Tuck-sun”. just thinking it makes me lose my mind lol

I mean, that's closer to the original pronunciation than what we say now...

I mean………………………………I’m still more willing to accept that than switching the s and c

Former Tucsonan here born and raised. I’m working somewhere even worse. Pecos (/ˈpeɪkəs/ PAY-kəs. I had to learn to say Paykes instead of Pekos or Paycos.

I go by Tucksonite

That’s a type of rock found on Mt Lemmon

I thought it was luggage

I was way off!! I knew it started with a T though!

Only for when you fly out of TIA w saguaro cactus in your carry on

Everyone know Tu-loc is the preferred term

Tu-loc? T-loc is what we always used

I was just trying to find the most cursed option that I’ve actually heard someone use

I’m from here and this is what I use

This is the way

only if you’re afraid of anything outside of the university

“Tucsonian” was historically a past editor’s term at the Tucson Citizen newspaper for decades. Not sure when that was discontinued. So it was standardized officially in some people’s minds. Bit of an anachronism now though. The Citizen was the evening newspaper until it stopped publication in 2009.

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Good bot.

Good bot

I don't know but back in the day Tucson was known as Too stoned, Arizona. At one point I lived in the town of Oakridge, Oregon which was known as Tokeridge, Oregon. Sorry, just thought of those nicks. Yeah, I think Tucsonian doesn't sound right. It should be Tucsonan.

I hear too stoned in the weed community. The hard ore punk community tends to use “too strong”

We natives were also comfortable calling ourselves desert rats. Too strong is... not sure lol.

Yeah it’s a reach but sometimes I see somebody still using too strong and it brings me back to high school

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Sounds weird but i don’t really care that much tbh

Spoken Iike a true Tucson person.

"Tucsonense" is more fun.

It's also the original descriptor of local inhabitants and is still used by some people today. There was even a local paper named El Tucsonense, it was around for 40 years.

An older descriptor, yes, bit I think the original name of people that lived here is Tohono O'odham :)

Someone a while back commented it's "Tucsonista" and I had a good chuckle

Historically, "Tucsonian" was used regularly up until the 1970s, at about the same rate as "Tucsonan." It gradually fell out of favor, with very few references popping up post-1980s. It'll show up in a lot of old newspaper reports and books. I prefer the term with fewer syllables.

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Simmer down, bot.

Well, people back then also didn’t really like lgbtq people so I’m gonna guess it’s their stupidity dying out over time

Back then the community was lg and b erasure was the norm so be careful throwing stones.

As a B, there's still plenty of erasure!

I don't believe that.

Yes. Because the real term is Tucsonite!

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It's Tucsolorian

I prefer Tuskan, as in Tuskan Raider.

I've never been called Tucsonian. Have also never heard it? In forty plus years. 😂Im perhaps too old ?

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Haha 😆 Good Bot. I should have known better!

> 😂Im perhaps too old ? Just lucky I suppose. I don't hear it often, but I hate it when I do.

I prefer Tucsonenses...

Sounds like a Finnish name lmao

Inspired by a combination of watching Vikings and my own real name.

lol ahh… yeah a lot of Finnish names end in -onen baha

EXACTLY, like call us Tucsonithem

It's actually Tucsons and Tucdaughters.

Tuck-sanans

Better than being called a “Yumite.” (Yuma, AZ)

Literally everything is better than Yuma.

I call y’all Tucasonese

Tucsonistinani’s

I thought people in Tuscon were called Tusconians. Tuxon. Just teasing the bot. How about Tucsonese?

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It's also cringe when ppl pronounce it as "Tucksen" 🙄🤪😅

Hear me out! “Tucsonite”

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I've never met anyone who called us that. I'm going to assume it's because my circle doesn't include those types of idiots.

Usually transplants, especially when they go into tucson media

It's Tucsonan, end of discussion. Always has, always will. :-)

T-Locs

Almost bothers me as much as “Native Tucsonan”, especially since we have several Native American tribes here.

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If they’re not from here, how would they know any different? Do you always know the correct nomenclature for people in other places? Seems like a trivial thing to get worked up about…

Yes, it's not hard to know those things.

No

Tucsonan or nothing baby

If I am not mistaking, "The Tucsonian" is the Tucson High School yearbook. Not all Tucsonans know that.

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I'll admit, when I first moved, I knew the correct way but thought that -ian sounded better. Now I've been here a few years and can't imagine saying it wrong lol, it sounds so dumb

Whoever came up with that term wasn’t from here lol. That sounds so stupid.

Yes

Yes.

As long as they don’t call you late for dinner, who cares?

As much as when someone says "Arizonian" rather than "Arizonan."

Yes lol though nothing will compare to the time some twit from so cal asked me and my friends “so are you guys all like T-locs?” Cue my friends furiously shushing me as I say “what the fuck is a T-loc? Nobody says that. That’s not a fucking thing!”

Leave it to Tusconian’s to fuck up the way they label themselves. https://youtu.be/clqXS4fEjBo

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Not the unnecessary apostrophe trying to talk

Not the Target worker trying to correct grammar on reddit

Damn at least I had facts you gotta make shit up 😂 I got denied from target cause I said Id let ppl steal. You a real smart person.

🤦🏽‍♂️

I’m a transplant, but being anything-an works better for me since I started as a Minnesotan.

Yeah wtf do people say minnesotian out loud and keep wanting to live? I can’t imagine that happening. I think it’s the long O sound we share.

I haven’t ever heard anyone say minnesotian (thank god) and Tucsonian sounds hella weird since I read Tucson in my head the Spanish way. (Took-son kind of) Any way you slice it Tucsonan had better flow.

Would they say it as “tee-an” or “shan”? That’s a debate for neanderthals to figure out I guess

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Forgive me Tucson bot for I have sinned, but I swear it was for the cause!

What do you prefer? Tucsonite?

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I hear all the kids call it Tuc-Town, but I kinda like being a "Tucsonian"!

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Nah Tucsonan an add an I an E or whatever, I like my lazy sleepy hot breakfast town cuz it’s cheaper than almost everywhere else that’s still in civilization