State names and their origins


	State names and their origins

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6-5-2007 11:44 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/58fb9f0a-34a3-49b8-ac95-6aa8f79bc2d0/2F8DFCBD-214F-47AF-9EBD-2076FB8B5BB1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/" href="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.neatorama.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/"><H1><A title="Permanent Link: The Origins of State Names." class="noline" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/">The Origins of State Names.</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.neatorama.com/img/3239E647-E883-4EDC-981E-99CF0FD75433" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/"><P>You know the names of all 50 states…but do you know where any of them come from? Here’s the best information we could find on the origin of each. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/"><P><STRONG>ALABAMA</STRONG>. Possibly from the Creek Indian word <EM>alibamo</EM>, meaning "we stay here."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/"><P><STRONG>ALASKA</STRONG>. From the Aleutian word <EM>alakshak</EM>, which means "great lands," or "land that is not an island."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/"><P><STRONG>ARIZONA</STRONG>. Taken either from the pima Indian words <EM>ali shonak</EM>, meaning "little spring," or from the Aztec word <EM>arizuma</EM>, meaning "silver-bearing."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/"><P><STRONG>ARKANSAS</STRONG>. The French somehow coined it from the name of the Siouan <EM>Quapaw</EM> tribe.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/"><P><STRONG>CALIFORNIA</STRONG>. According to one theory, <A href="#" class="kLink"  id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="#32527a"><SPAN class="kLink">Spanish</SPAN></FONT></A> settlers names it after a utopian society described in a popular 16th-century novel called <EM>Serged de Esplandian</EM>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/"><P><STRONG>COLORADO</STRONG>. Means "red" in Spanish. The name was originally applied to the Colorado River, whose waters are reddish with canyon clay. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/"><P><STRONG>CONNECTICUT</STRONG>. Taken from the Mohican word <EM>kuenihtekot</EM>, which means "long river place."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2F8DFCBD-214F-47AF-9EBD-2076FB8B5BB1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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