NIOSA = "Nigh-osa" or "Nee-osa?"

[Chris Duel]

Come on, people.

Don't bring me down.

Say it like we're supposed to say it.

[RashoFan]

Somebody have a margarita for me!

[marini martini]

Chris, I'm all about Nigh- Osa! Just me, for before the war! The one before you were born

[SAtown]

Doesn't matter how you say it, it's still ghetto as

[marini martini]

Doesn't matter how you say it, it's still ghetto as

Blasheme, Nigh-Osa rocks, socks 4 frickin' evah

[Dex]

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.

[ashbeeigh]

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]

Nigh-osa for me.

I miss this

[spyder]

Doesn't matter how you say it, it's still ghetto as

NIOSA is defitnetly not ghetto..you must be thinking of the carnival

[drunkendan]

Don't forget about the Nigh-osa kisses.

[KEDA]

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 I want and that is NIGH-osa.

[lebomb]

Naw-ouh-sha

[Chris Duel]

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 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!

[curtismedellin]

Nigh-osa.

[boutons_]

nigh-osa would be wide-open-mouthed American.

nee-osa would be Spanish. I prefer this.

Wishing you'll a feliz Figh-esta.

[jman3000]

i dont think ive ever heard any body pronounce it "knee"... that's just odd.

[Solid D]

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)

Just to be different, I think I'll start calling it Nee-ght In Old San Antonio.

[samikeyp]

Nigh-osa.

Puro San Antonio.

[tsb2000]

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!

Amen!!

[boutons_]

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)