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Top TigerNet [30481]
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why is Arkansas pronounced Arkansaw?
Feb 5, 2013, 8:19 PM
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serious question
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Notice the positioning of "S" and "W" on keyboards......
Feb 5, 2013, 8:24 PM
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Sorry; know you are looking for serious answers but just couldn't help noticing when I glanced down... 
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Re: why is Arkansas pronounced Arkansaw?
Feb 5, 2013, 8:24 PM
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Ever met anyone from there? Serious response.
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It is just the way they
Feb 5, 2013, 8:25 PM
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talk down there. For example, in Alabama , "that boy" is pronounced "Dabo".
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Top TigerNet [30481]
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why is it not Kansaw?***
Feb 5, 2013, 8:28 PM
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Not sure
Feb 5, 2013, 8:33 PM
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Why that is but the natives are called Arkansans said just like it looks and it seems like the "saw" doesn't fit
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Actually, I really know this. It's from a
Feb 5, 2013, 8:35 PM
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Nigerian word and the terminal s is silent. hth
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same reason that missouri is pronounced mizzuruh by the locals...***
Feb 5, 2013, 8:36 PM
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Top TigerNet [30481]
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not the same
Feb 5, 2013, 8:36 PM
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nobody ever ever says Arkansass.
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Re: not the same
Feb 6, 2013, 2:04 AM
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Les Miles does.
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Re: why is Arkansas pronounced Arkansaw?
Feb 5, 2013, 8:50 PM
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Arkansas is a French variant of the Siouxian word Quapaw (also a tribe located in the area around the area where Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas almost meet, and, additionally, a town in northeastern Oklahoma, between Miami and Baxter Springs, Kansas). Quapaw means, literally, "downstream people."
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thats as good as any i've heard. there is not a "rule" in
Feb 5, 2013, 8:54 PM
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the english language to explain it, if there were it would be pronounced ar-kansas!
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Re: why is Arkansas pronounced Arkansaw?
Feb 5, 2013, 8:57 PM
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There are a lot of things that are not done right in Arkansas.
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What did Tennessee?
Feb 5, 2013, 9:15 PM
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..the same thing Arkansas 'ba-dum-chh'
Haa sorry 
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Gotta tell one on my wife. She's a Tennessee native. We
Feb 5, 2013, 9:31 PM
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live on her family homestead. When we met, she told me the origin of the state's name comes from "Ten I See," referring to the state bordering ten other states. This is what he Appalachian (read uneducated) parents raised her to believe. I said, that doesn't sound right. Looking it up, it turns out the name came from the name of an Indian city/state.
She argued the point--It's Ten I See. So, I said, name 'em.
True story.
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Why did Callie-phone-ya?
Feb 6, 2013, 4:58 AM
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She called to ask, "Hawa-yah?"
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Or...What did Missy-sip?
Feb 6, 2013, 4:59 AM
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She sipped Many-a-soda!
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Re: why is Arkansas pronounced Arkansaw?
Feb 6, 2013, 2:09 AM
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Why is Missouri is pronounced Missoura?
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