utc the article's usage should reflect that of the bay area locality like hell it should if that was the standard by which we wrote wikipedia there'd be a lot of strange sounding articles the standard is clearly laid out in wp ue that we use whatever is most commonly reflected in reliable sources for now strange though the inclusion of the sounds to my midwestern ears i must grant that u s geological survey is a very powerful source supporting inclusion of the the but it is not the only such source and i consider the question to be an open one i have no plans to hunt down other sources to counter it but i just did not want to allow the canard that local usage is our standard to go by and if i am wrong about this i don't mind being shown the facts but this certainly flies in the face of everything i've seen in the last four years january