Brand@feddit.de to Greentext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year agoAnon learns about foreign languagesfeddit.deimagemessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1502arrow-down124
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minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·1 year agoHave they decided which of Arkansas and Kansas is pronounced correctly? I assume that’s what their civil war was about.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up23·1 year agoArkansas is the one which was originally named, it comes from the french name of one of the tribes that lived in the region. Kansas just thought it sounded cool.
minus-squareRose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoThen can you explain where, exactly, they’re carrying those wayward sons?
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoIt’s easy when they’re just dust in the wind
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoI dunno, but there’ll be peace when they are done.
minus-squarePsychedSy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoThere is a Kansa tribe. No need to erase natives over interstate bullshit.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoDidnt know, just kinda assumed due to how often states either split or names get recycled.
minus-squarePsychedSy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoWhile in Kansas the Arkansas River is pronounced arr-kansas. Otherwise it’s Arkansaw.
Have they decided which of Arkansas and Kansas is pronounced correctly? I assume that’s what their civil war was about.
Arkansas is the one which was originally named, it comes from the french name of one of the tribes that lived in the region. Kansas just thought it sounded cool.
Then can you explain where, exactly, they’re carrying those wayward sons?
It’s easy when they’re just dust in the wind
I dunno, but there’ll be peace when they are done.
There is a Kansa tribe. No need to erase natives over interstate bullshit.
Didnt know, just kinda assumed due to how often states either split or names get recycled.
While in Kansas the Arkansas River is pronounced arr-kansas. Otherwise it’s Arkansaw.