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SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• abouttocomealive@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One is Akansas

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  • SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I see that now. I did not see it then.

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  • Aatube@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are-ken-saw, A-kan-saw and a Kan-sahs

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• wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One has no R

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  • SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I see that now. I did not see it then.

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But where is Are-Cannot-Saw?

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  • badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Next to Coloradon’t

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• Nougat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That's because Arkansas (ARE-can-saw) retained the native language pronounciation, while Kansas (CAN-zuhs) was Anglicanized.

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  • misophist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Today I learned the native language was French!

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    • Nougat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The word “Arkansas” came from the Quapaw Indians, by way of early French explorers. ... The state’s name has been spelled several ways throughout history. In Marquette and Joliet’s Journal of 1673, the Indian name is spelled AKANSEA. In LaSalle’s map a few years later, it’s spelled ACANSA. A map based on the journey of La Harpe in 1718-1722 refers to the river as the ARKANSAS and to the Indians as LES AKANSAS. In about 1811, Captain Zebulon Pike, a noted explorer, spelled it ARKANSAW.

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