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Originally Posted by AntonAusTirol
the name "Rincon" seems like a horrible misuse of the English language--as if someone at engrish.com were trying to say "Lincoln." (although I'll admit I've never actually heard it pronounced before, which could end up being completely different than how it is spelled)
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I don't get what you're saying. As Slock points out it's Spanish and in SF it's actually a fairly historic place name. I'm not sure when Rincon Hill was named but it was a long time ago. By one historical account (
http://www.spur.org/documents/030101_article_02.shtm ), "In the mid-1840s, when San Francisco was a ragged collection of adobe and frame buildings with a population of little more than 200 residents, Rincon Hill was an isolated shrub-covered landmark, rising 120 feet above the uninhabited sand dunes south of present-day Market Street. That isolation was soon to end."