"In Spanish, where most words are either masculine or feminine, the Pacific Ocean is considered masculine, so it ends in an “o.” Ipso facto, Pacifico. But then we explained that when Pacifica was named, by vote at a public meeting, nobody there spoke Spanish, or at least not grammatically. And then we added that Americans associate fine lovely things with the female sex, and so maybe that’s why the name Pacifica sounded so nice to people of the city."
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Lowell Blankfort, "Pacifica? Mexicans Frown; Shouldn't It Be Pacifico?", The Pacifica Tribune (November 12, 1959, p. 14)
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