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April 25, 2008

San Francisco walks, 6.

There are a lot of places in California named after saints. And since the Spanish missionaries were here well before any English-speaking Americans (or the Russians, who came down from Alaska and left their mark on place-names like Russian River), these towns start with San or Santa, depending on the saint’s gender. As in San Jose, Santa Barbara, San Rafael, Santa Clara, and, of course San Francisco. This one I found on a shop sign near Washington Square.

Never heard of that Saint.

sanzen.jpg Posted by erik at April 25, 2008 4:12 AM | TrackBack
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I'm no expert in Japanese but In fact I believe it means "3000" in Japanese.

- San is Japanese for 3
- Sen is thousand. (but takes on a Z sound following a voiced consonant line "n")

3000 Nails?

Posted by: Duncan at April 25, 2008 9:01 PM
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I always thought it meant "Without Nails."

Posted by: Su at April 29, 2008 10:42 AM
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