Sports copy editor, part time, The Buffalo News

[micropolitan guy]

Also from Olean, and I feel exactly the same way. That said, now that I live in Florida, I tell everyone I'm from Buffalo and then if they say "Oh, what part of Buffalo?" I answer with "Oh, I'm not actually from Buffalo, I'm from Olean."

When people see where I was born in print, they call it O-lean, rhyming with O-bean.

I actually spent my first two years in Portville, my dad's hometown. My mom was from Ceres.

 

[JoshBarnett]

When people see where I was born in print, they call it O-lean, rhyming with O-bean.

I actually spent my first two years in Portville, my dad's hometown. My mom was from Ceres.

Unfortunately, there has been a young meteorologist or two from out of town who has read the name on the map that way while on live television. Not great.