View Full Version : NIOSA = "Nigh-osa" or "Nee-osa?"
Chris Duel
04-17-2008, 10:36 PM
Come on, people.
Don't bring me down.
Say it like we're supposed to say it.
:nope
RashoFan
04-17-2008, 10:41 PM
Somebody have a margarita for me!
marini martini
04-17-2008, 10:44 PM
Chris, I'm all about Nigh- Osa! Just me, for before the war! The one before you were born:lol:lol:lol
SAtown
04-17-2008, 10:47 PM
Doesn't matter how you say it, it's still ghetto as fuck
marini martini
04-17-2008, 10:51 PM
Doesn't matter how you say it, it's still ghetto as fuck
Blasheme, Nigh-Osa rocks, socks 4 frickin' evah:toast
I always thought it was Nigh-Osa because it sort of sounds like Nights in Ol' San Antonio.
But I gotta be honest, I didn't name the damn thing. :spin
ashbeeigh
04-17-2008, 11:24 PM
I say "Nigh-osa," but often times I do hear the people on the committee say it the other way. To each their own, ya know? I say TOE-mato you say toe-MATO.
makedamnsure
04-18-2008, 12:04 AM
Nigh-osa for me.
I miss this :(
spyder
04-18-2008, 02:07 AM
Doesn't matter how you say it, it's still ghetto as fuck
NIOSA is defitnetly not ghetto..you must be thinking of the carnival
drunkendan
04-18-2008, 07:46 AM
Don't forget about the Nigh-osa kisses.
If you look on the NIOSA website it says it is pronounced KNEE-osa, but since I pay for my tickets and entry, I will call it whatever the hell I want and that is NIGH-osa.
lebomb
04-18-2008, 11:25 AM
Naw-ouh-sha :shootme
Chris Duel
04-18-2008, 03:07 PM
If you look on the NIOSA website it says it is pronounced KNEE-osa, but since I pay for my tickets and entry, I will call it whatever the hell I want and that is NIGH-osa.
I know those Conservation Society Nazis call it Nee-osa, but I swear to God, when I went for the first time in 1973 (and was able to drink beer freely at the age of 12 - not that I'm proud of my juvenile delinquency, but it shows you what a different time it was back then), no one called it Nee-osa. It was Nigh-osa, 100%.
I don't know when these cutesy local peeps decided to change the way we're supposed to say it, but I'm sticking with the way I first heard it as a drunken 12-year-old! :cooldevil
curtismedellin
04-18-2008, 08:09 PM
Nigh-osa.
boutons_
04-18-2008, 08:56 PM
nigh-osa would be wide-open-mouthed American.
nee-osa would be Spanish. I prefer this.
Wishing you'll a feliz Figh-esta.
jman3000
04-19-2008, 04:29 AM
i dont think ive ever heard any body pronounce it "knee"... that's just odd.
Solid D
04-19-2008, 11:56 AM
nigh-osa would be wide-open-mouthed American.
nee-osa would be Spanish. I prefer this.
Wishing you'll a feliz Figh-esta.
Spanish would be NEVSA (Noche en viejo San Antonio) :smokin
Just to be different, I think I'll start calling it Nee-ght In Old San Antonio.
samikeyp
04-19-2008, 07:55 PM
Nigh-osa.
Puro San Antonio.
tsb2000
04-20-2008, 09:28 AM
I know those Conservation Society Nazis call it Nee-osa, but I swear to God, when I went for the first time in 1973 (and was able to drink beer freely at the age of 12 - not that I'm proud of my juvenile delinquency, but it shows you what a different time it was back then), no one called it Nee-osa. It was Nigh-osa, 100%.
I don't know when these cutesy local peeps decided to change the way we're supposed to say it, but I'm sticking with the way I first heard it as a drunken 12-year-old! :cooldevil
Amen!! :toast
boutons_
04-20-2008, 09:40 AM
English is the only language where "i" is pronounced as in high.
Show niosa to a Mexican and see how they pronounce it.
(don't ask them to translate the English words into a Spanish acronym)
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