OT: Why is it called 'Iowa'?

Robatoy · 2007-06-04T19:27:12+00:00

ALABAMA. Possibly from the Creek Indian word alibamo, meaning "we stayhere."ALASKA. From the Aleutian word alakshak, which means "great lands," or"land that is not an island."ARIZONA. Taken either from the pima Indian words ali shonak, meaning"little spring," or from the Aztec word arizuma, meaning "silver-bearing."ARKANSAS. The French somehow coined it from the name of the SiouanQuapaw tribe.CALIFORNIA. According to one theory, Spanish settlers names it after autopian society described in a popular 16th-century novel calledSerged de Esplandian.COLORADO. Means "red" in Spanish. The name was originally applied tothe Colorado River, whose waters are reddish with canyon clay.CONNECTICUT. Taken from the Mohican word kuenihtekot, which means"long river place."DELAWARE. Named after Lord De La Warr, a governor of Virginia.Originally used only to name the Delaware River.FLORIDA. Explorer Ponce de Leon named the state Pascua Florida -"flowery Easter"-on Easter Sunday in 1513.GEORGIA. Named after King George II of England, who charted the colonyin 1732.HAWAII. An English adaptation of the native word owhyhee, which means"homeland."IDAHO. Possibly taken from the Kiowa Apache word for the ComancheIndians.ILLINOIS. The French bastardization of the Algonquin word illini,which means "men."INDIANA. Named by English-speaking settlers because the territory wasfull of Indians.IOWA. The Sioux word for "beautiful land," or "one who puts to sleep."KANSAS. Taken from the Sioux word for "south wind people," their namefor anyone who lived south of Sioux territory.KENTUCKY. Possibly derived from the Indian word kan-tuk-kee, meaning"dark and bloody ground." Or kan-tuc-kec, "land of green reeds", orken-take, meaning "meadowland."LOUISIANA. Named after French King Louis XIV.MAINE. The Old French word for "province."MARYLAND. Named after Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of English KingGeorge I.MASSACHUSETTS. Named after the Massachusetts Indian tribe. Means"large hill place."MICHIGAN. Most likely...

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Mike M 19 years ago

Waving a white flag?

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J T 19 years ago

Wed, Jun 6, 2007, 11:23am snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com (Mike=A0M) did sayeth: "Anybody can have more birthdays; but it takes balls to get old!"

Well that explains a lot about some old women I've met.

JOAT If a man does his best, what else is there?

- General George S. Patton

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Mike M 19 years ago

< Well that explains a lot about some old women I've met.

What??? Did you check????

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Morris Dovey 19 years ago

Robatoy wrote: | On Jun 6, 8:43 am, "Morris Dovey" wrote: || Mike in Arkansas wrote: || ||| IOWA?? huh, here in Arkansas we pronounce that OHIO || || Ok - I suppose it was for my friends in Arkansas that I added maps || to my web site showing where Iowa is located... :-D | | When you look at the big USA map, we're not that far from each | other...but tell me.. how did a yellow state vote?

Cautiously.

-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA

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