What Do You Call Kansai Super? Here Are the Results

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We asked: What do you call “Kansai Super”? Here

This time, we received 1,068 votes～🤗🤗🤗
Thank you as always to all our readers for taking part in the survey.

Now, let’s take a look at the results.

Survey Details

What do you call “Kansai Super”?

• Kansai Super
• Kansuu (rising intonation at the end)
• Kansuu (falling intonation at the end)
• Kansupa
• Other
• If you chose “Other,” please tell us what you call it

Those were the six options.

Results: What Do You Call “Kansai Super”?

We received 1,068 responses to the survey. Thank you for all the answers😀

Overall Results

• Kansuu with falling intonation was the most common, at 41.4%
• Next was Kansupa at 30.2%
• Kansuu with rising intonation was 18.3%
• Even among people who say “Kansuu,” the falling-intonation group was about twice as large as the rising-intonation group

What Do People Call “Kansai Super” by Area?

Since response rates were high in areas that have a Kansai Super, we started by making a graph for those areas.

• In Koroen and Hamawaki/Yokai, Kansuu with falling intonation was overwhelmingly common
• In Shukugawa, Kurakuen-guchi, Uegahara/Taisha, Naruo/Takasu/Komatsu, Kansupa was more common
• In the Koyoen/Kurakuen area, Kansuu with falling intonation was slightly more common, but the numbers were almost even
• Among areas in Nishinomiya with a Kansai Super, Kansupa had a higher share compared with other areas
• Outside Nishinomiya, Kansuu with falling intonation was more common

What do people call “Kansai Super” in all areas?

• In the Koshienguchi area and Nigawa/Kotoen area, a relatively high percentage of people use the official name “Kansai Super”

What Do People Call “Kansai Super” by Age?

※Sorted based on Kansupa

• As age increases, the percentage of people saying Kansai Super or Kansupa goes up
• People in their 20s tended to use the rising intonation more often
• Kansuu with falling intonation was most common among people in their 30s

Overall…

• Among people in their 60s and older, Kansupa was common in every area.
• However, in the Koyoen/Kurakuen area, “Kansuu” with rising intonation was the most common across all age groups.

What Do the “Other” People Say?

People who answered “Other” made up about 2% of the total. Now we’re curious what kinds of names they use (^o^)

• Kansu (without stretching the ending) 17 votes
• Kanpa 2 votes
• Kansupan, Saipaa, Kansuu-san, Kantaitsuu-paa, Suppappa 1 vote each

So there was a version where people say Kansu without stretching itーーーーー!!!
Now that you mention it, I feel like I may or may not have heard “Kansu” somewhere before.

There was also “Kansuu-san”～
Very Kansai-like, since people say things like ame-chan for candy or Coop-san for Co-op～

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Finally

Following our “What do you call ○○ Station?” survey, this time we asked, “What do you call Kansai Super?”
What did you think～(^o^)

The way we call things is really influenced by the people around us, isn’t it?
When I was a student going to school in Kobe, I used to end everything with “○○ shito～?” and say “too, too” all the time, but lately even that Kobe dialect-like way of speaking has completely disappeared from me.

Even with the same “Kansuu,” there were people with falling intonation and people with rising intonation, and there was even a version that stops at “Kansu.”
It was also interesting that the percentage of people saying “Kansupa” rises with age.